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ROBINSON   CHUSOE   ON    THE  RAFT.-Pcagc  23. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE 


IN    WORDS    OF 


APR  141949    ^ 


ONE    SYLLABLE. 


BY 
MARY    GODOLPHIN. 


WITH    COLORED    ILLUSTRATIONS. 


-♦♦.  •  .» ^ 


NEW  YOBK: 
McLOUGHLIN  BROTHERS,  PUBLISHER^: 


1869. 


PREFACE, 


^^^  HE   production  of  a  book  whicli   is   adapted   to  the 
'I  (  use   of  the  youngest  readers  needs  but   few  words 

"^)A         of    excuse   or  apology.      The   nature   of    the   work 
pr.  seems   to   be   sufficiently  explained   by  the   title   it- 

\v>4  n^  self,  and  the  author's  task  has  been  chiefly  to 
reduce  the  ordinary  language  into  words  of  one  syllable.  But 
although,  as  far  as  the  subject  matter  is  concerned,  the  book  can 
lay  no  claims  to  originality,  it  is  believed  that  the  idea  and 
scope  of  its  construction  are  entirely  novel,  for  the  One  Syllable 
literature  of  the  present  day  furnishes  little  more  than  a  few  short, 
unconnected  sentences,  and  those  chiefly  in  spelling  books. 

The  deep  interest  which  De  Foe's  story  has  never  failed  to 
arouse  in  the  minds  of  the  young,  induces  the  author  to  hope 
that  it  may  be  acceptable  in  its  present  form. 

It  should  be  stated  that  exceptions  to  the  rule  of  using 
words  of  one  syllable  exclusively  have  been  made  in  the  case  of 
the  proper  names  of  the  boy  Xury  and  of  the  man  Friday,  and 
in  the  titles  of  the  illustrations  that  accompany  this  work. 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


1.  ROBINSON  CRUSOF  ON  THE  RAFT 23 

2.  tlOBINSON   CRUSOE  BRINGS  IN  THE  FIRST  KID 2G 

3.  ROBINSON  CRUSOE  WITH    HIS  FAMILY   AT  DINNER .        .        .  3» 

i.  ROBINSON   CRUSOE  DISCOVERS  A  FOOT-PRINT    .        .                3!> 

5.  ROBINSON  CRUSOE  RESCUES  FRIDAY 47 

6.  ROBINSON  CRUSOE  RELEASES  THE  SPANIARD   FROM  THE  CANNIBAJLS 5!» 

7.  THE    GOOD  ENGLISHMEN'S  COLONY.        .                ,       .       .        •        -  7T 

8.  ROBINSON  CRUSOE  TRAVELING  IN  CHINA    .        .               8* 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 


IN  WORDS  OF  ONE  SYLLABLE. 


^  ♦,  »  <»  » 


WAS  bom  at  York  on  the  first  of  March 
ill  the  sixth  year  of  the  reign  of  King- 
Charles  the  First.  From  the  time  when  I 
was  quite  a  young  child,  I  had  felt  a  great 
wish  to  spend  my  life  at  sea,  and  as  I 
grew,  so  did  this  taste  grow  more  and  more 
strong;  till  at  last  I  broke  loose  from  my  school  and 
home,  and  found  my  way  on  foot  to  Hull,  where  I  soon 
got  a  place  on  board  a  ship. 

When  we  had  set  sail  but  a  few  days,  a  squall 
of  wind  came  on,  and  on  the  fifth  night  we  sprang  a 
leak.  All  hands  were  sent  to  the  pumps,  but  we  felt 
the  ship  groan  in  all  her  planks,  and  her  beams  quake 
from  stem  to  stern;  so  that  it  was  soon  quite  clear 
there  was  no  hope  for  her,  and  that  all  we  could  do 
was  to  save  our  lives. 

The  first  thing  was  to  fire  off  guns,  to  show  that  we 
were  in  need  of  help,  and  at  length  a  ship,  which  lay 
not  far  from  us,  sent  a  boat  to  our  aid.  But  the  sea 
was  too  rough  for  it  to  lie  near  our  ship's  side,  so  we 
threw  out  a  rope,  which  the  men  in  the  boat  caught, 
and  made  fast,  and  by  this  means  we  all  got  in. 


6  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

Still,  ill  SO  wild  a  sea  it  was  in  vain  to  try  to  get  on 
board  the  ship  which  had  sent  out  the  men,  or  to  use 
our  oars  in  the  boat,  and  all  we  could  do  was  to  let  it 
drive  to  shore. 

In  the  space  of  half  an  hour  our  own  ship  struck  on 
a  rock  and  went  down,  and  we  saw  her  no  more.  We 
made  but  slow  way  to  the  land,  which  we  caught  sight 
of  now  and  then  when  the  boat  rose  to  the  top  of  some 
high  wave,  and  there  we  saw  men  who  ran  in  crowds, 
to  and  fro,  all  bent  on  one  thing,  and  that  was  to 
save  us. 

At  last  to  our  great  joy  we  got  on  shore,  where  we 
had  the  luck  to  meet  with  friends  who  gave  us  the 
means  to  get  back  to  Hull ;  and  if  I  had  now  had  the 
good  sense  to  go  home,  it  would  have  been  well  for  me. 

The  man  whose  ship  had  gone  down  said  with  a 
grave  look,  "  Young  lad,  you  ought  to  go  to  sea  no 
more,  it  is  not  the  kind  of  life  for  you."  Why  sir,  will 
you  go  to  sea  no  more  then  ?"  ^'  That  is  not  the  same 
kind  of  thing ;  I  was  bred  to  the  sea,  but  you  were  not, 
and  came  on  board  my  ship  just  to  find  out  what  a 
life  at  sea  was  like,  and  you  may  guess  what  you  will 
come  to  if  you  do  not  go  back  to  your  home.  God 
will  not  bless  you,  and  it  may  be  that  you  have  brought 
all  this  woe  on  us." 

I  spoke  not  a  word  more  to  him ;  which  way  he  went 
I  knew  not,  nor  did  I  care  to  know,  for  I  was  hurt  at 
this  rude  speech.     Shall  I  go  home  thought  I,  or  shall 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  T 

I  go  to  sea  ?     Shame  kept  me  from  home,  and  I  could 
not  make  up  my  mind  what  course  of  hfe  to  take. 

As  it  has  been  my  fate  through  hfe  to  choose  for  the 
worst,  so  I  did  now.  I  had  gold  in  my  purse,  and  good, 
clothes  on  my  back,  and  to  sea  I  went  once  more. 

But  I  had  worse  luck  this  time  than  the  last,  for  when 
we  were  far  out  at  sea,  some  Turks  in  a  small  ship  came 
on  our  track  in  full  chase.  We  set  as  much  sail  as  our 
yards  would  bear,  so  as  to  get  clear  from  them.  But 
in  spite  of  this,  we  saw  our  foes  gain  on  us,  and  we 
felt  sure  that  they  would  come  up  with  our  ship  in  a 
few  hours'  time. 

At  last  they  caught  us,  but  we  brought  our  guns  to 
bear  on  them,  which  made  them  shear  off  for  a  time, 
yet  they  kept  up  a  fire  at  us  as  long  as  they  were  in 
range.  The  next  time  the  Turks  came  up,  some  of 
their  men  got  on  board  our  ship,  and  set  to  work  to 
cut  the  sails,  and  do  us  ah  kinds  of  harm.  So,  as  ten 
of  our  men  lay  dead,  and  most  of  the  rest  had  wounds, 
we  gave  in. 

The  chief  of  the  Turks  took  me  as  his  prize  to  a  port 
which  was  held  by  the  Moors.  He  did  not  use  me  so 
ill  as  at  first  I  thought  he  would  have  done,  but  he  set 
me  to  work  with  the  rest  of  his  slaves.  This  was  a 
change  in  my  life  which  I  did  not  think  had  been  in 
store  for  me.  How  my  heart  sank  with  grief  at  the 
thought  of  those  whom  I  had  left  at  home,  nay,  to 
whom  I  had  not  had  the  grace  so  much  as  to  say 


8  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

^'  Good  bye  "  when  I  went  to  sea,  nor  to  give  a  hint  of 
what  I  meant  to  do ! 

Yet  all  that  I  went  through  at  this  time  was  but  a 
taste  of  the  toils  and  cares  which  it  has  since  been  my 
lot  to  bear. 

I  thought  at  first  that  the  Turk  might  take  me  with 
him  when  next  he  went  to  sea,  and  so  I  should  find 
some  way  to  get  free ;  but  the  hope  did  not  last  long, 
for  at  such  times  he  left  me  on  shore  to  see  to  his  crops. 
This  kind  ot  hfe  I  led  for  two  years,  and  as  the  Turk 
knew  and  saw  more  of  me,  he  made  me  more  and  more 
free.  He  went  out  in  his  boat  once  or  twice  a  week  to 
catch  a  kind  of  flat  fish,  and  now  and  then  he  took  me 
and  a  boy  with  him,  for  we  were  quick  at  this  kind  of 
sport,  and  he  grew  quite  fond  of  me. 

One  day  the  Turk  sent  me  in  the  boat  to  catch  some 
fish,  with  no  one  else  but  a  man  and  a  boy.  While  we 
were  out,  so  thick  a  fog  came  on,  that  though  we  were 
not  half  a  mile  from  the  shore,  we  quite  lost  sight  of  it 
for  twelve  hours ;  and  when  the  sun  rose  the  next  day. 
our  l)oat  was  at  least  ten  miles  out  at  sea.  The  wind 
blew  fresh,  and  we  were  all  much  in  want  of  food,  but 
at  last,  with  the  help  of  our  oars  and  sail,  we  got  back 
safe  to  land. 

When  the  Turk  heard  how  we  had  lost  our  way,  he 
said  that  the  next  time  he  went  out,  he  would  take  a 
boat  that  would  hold  all  we  could  want  if  we  were  kept 
out  at  sea.     So  he  had  quite  a  state  room  built  in  the 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  9 

long  boat  of  his  ship,  as  well  as  a  room  for  us  slaves. 
One  day  he  sent  nie  to  trim  the  boat,  as  he  had  two 
friends  who  would  go  m  it  to  fish  with  him.  But  when 
the  tune  came  they  did  not  go,  so  he  sent  me  with  the 
man  and  the  boy — whose  name  was  Xury — to  catch 
some  fish  for  the  guests  that  were  to  sup  w  itli  hun. 

Now  the  thought  struck  me  all  at  once  that  this 
would  be  a  good  chance  to  set  oflP  with  the  boat,  and 
get  free.  So  in  the  first  place,  I  took  all  the  food  that 
I  could  lay  my  hands  on,  and  I  told  the  man  that  it 
would  be  too  bold  of  us  to  eat  of  the  bread  that  had 
been  put  in  the  boat  for  the  Turk.  He  said  he  thought 
so  too,  and  he  brought  down  a  small  sack  of  rice  and 
some  rusks. 

While  the  man  was  on  shore  I  put  up  some  wine,  a 
large  lump  of  wax,  a  saw,  an  axe,  a  spade,  some  rope, 
and  all  sorts  of  things  that  might  be  of  use  to  us.  I 
knew  where  the  Turk's  case  of  mne  was,  and  I  put  that 
in  the  boat  while  the  man  was  on  shore.  By  one  more 
trick  I  got  all  that  I  had  need  of  I  said  to  the  boy, 
^'  the  Tmiv's  guns  are  in  the  boat,  but  there  is  no  shot. 
Do  you  tliink  you  could  get  some  ?  You  know  where 
it  is  kept,  and  we  may  want  to  shoot  a  fowl  or  two,'' 
So  he  brought  a  case  and  a  pouch  which  Jield  all  that 
we  could  want  for  the  guns.  These  I  put  in  the  boat, 
and  then  set  sail  out  of  the  poil  to  fish. 

The  wind  blew  from  the  North,  or  North  West;  which 
was  a  bad  mud  for  me ;  for  had  it  been  South,  I  could 


10  ROBINSONCEUSOE. 

have  made  for  the  coast  of  Spain.  But,  blow  which 
way  it  might,  my  mind  was  made  up  to  get  off,  and  to 
leave  the  rest  to  fate.  I  then  let  down  my  lines  to  fish, 
but  I  took  care  to  have  bad  sport ;  and  when  the  fish 
bit,  I  would  not  pull  them  up,  for  the  Moor  was  not  to 
see  them.  I  said  to  him,  ''  This  will  not  do,  we  shall 
catch  no  fish  here,  we  ought  to  sail  on  a  bit."  Well, 
the  Moor  thought  there  was  no  harm  in  this.  He  set 
the  sails,  and,  as  the  helm  was  in  my  hands,  I  ran  the 
boat  out  a  mile  or  more,  and  then  brought  her  to,  as 
if  I  mernt  to  fish. 

^'  Now,  thought  I,  the  time  has  come  for  me  to  get 
free !  I  gave  the  helm  to  the  boy,  and  then  took  the 
Moor  round  the  waist,  and  threw  him  out  of  the  boat. 

Down  he  went !  but  soon  rose  up,  for  he  swam  like 
a  duck.  He  said  he  would  go  all  round  the  world  with 
me,  if  I  would  but  take  him  in. 

I  had  some  fear  lest  he  should  climb  up  the  boat's 
side,  and  force  his  way  back ;  so  I  brought  my  gun  to 
point  at  him,  and  said,  "  You  can  swim  to  land  with 
ease  if  you  choose,  make  haste  then  to  get  there ;  but  if 
vou  come  near  the  boat  vou  shall  have  a  shot  throuo;h 
the  head,  for  I  mean  to  be  a  free  man  from  this  hour." 

He  then  swam  for  the  shore,  and  no  doubt  got  safe 
there,  as  the  sea  was  so  calm. 

At  first  I  thought  I  would  take  the  Moor  with  me, 
and  let  Xury  swim  to  land;  but  the  Moor  was  not  a 
man  that  I  could  trust. 


EOBINSONCRUSOE.  11 

When  he  was  gone  I  said  to  Xury,  ^'If  you  will 
swear  to  be  true  to  me,  you  shall  be  a  great  man  in 
time ;  if  not,  I  must  throw  you  out  of  the  boat  too." 

The  poor  boy  gave  me  such  a  sweet  smile  as  he 
swore  to  be  true  to  me,  that  I  could  not  find  it  in  my 
heart  to  doubt  him. 

While  the  man  was  still  in  view  (for  he  was  on  his 
way  to  the  land),  we  stood  out  to  sea  with  the  boat,  so 
that  he  and  those  that  saw  us  from  the  shore,  might 
think  we  had  gone  to  the  straits'  mouth,  for  no  one 
went  to  the  South  coast,  as  a  tribe  of  men  dwQJt  there 
who  were  known  to  kill  and  eat  their  foes. 

We  then  bent  our  course  to  the  East,  so  as  to  keep  in 
with  the  shore ;  and  as  we  had  a  fair  wind  and  a  smooth 
sea,  by  the  next  day  at  noon,  we  were  not  less  than 
150  miles  out  of  the  reach  of  the  Turk. 

I  had  still  some  fear  lest  I  should  be  caught  by  the 
Moors,  so  I  would  not  go  on  shore  in  the  day  time. 
But  when  it  grew  dark  we  made  our  way  to  the  coast, 
and  came  to  the  mouth  of  a  stream,  from  which  we 
thought  we  could  swim  to  land,  and  then  look  round 
us.  But  as  soon  as  it  was  quite  dark  we  heard  strange 
sounds — barks,  roars,  grunts,  and  howls.  The  poor 
lad  said  he  could  not  go  on  shore  till  dawn.  '^  Well," 
said  I,  ''  then  we  must  give  it  up,  but  it  may  be  that  in 
the  day  time  we  shall  be  seen  by  men,  who  for  all  we 
know  would  do  us  more  harm  than  wild  beasts."  '^  Then 
we  give  them  the  shoot  gun,"  said  Xury  with  a  laugh, 


12  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

^'  and  make  them  run  away."     I  was  glad  to  see  so  much 
mirth  in  the  boy,  and  gave  him  some  bread  and  rice. 

We  lay  still  at  night,  but  did  not  sleep  long,  for  in  a 
few  hours'  time  some  huge  beasts  came  down  to  the 
sea  to  bathe.  The  poor  boy  shook  from  head  to  foot 
at  the  siglit.  One  of  these  l3easts  came  near  our  boat, 
and  though  it  was  too  dark  to  see  him  well,  we  heard 
him  pufi*  and  blow,  and  knew  that  he  must  be  a  large 
one  by  the  noise  he  made.  At  last  the  brute  came  as 
near  to  the  boat  as  two  oars'  length,  so  I  shot  at  him, 
and  he  swam  to  the  shore. 

The  roar  and  cries  set  up  by  beasts  and  birds  at  the 
noise  of  my  gun  would  seem  to  show  that  we  had  made 
a  bad  choice  of  a  place  to  land  on ;  but  be  that  as 
it  would,  to  shore  we  had  to  go  to  find  some  fresh 
spring,  so  that  we  might  fill  our  casks.  Xury  said  if 
I  would  let  him  go  with  one  of  the  jars,  he  would 
find  out  if  the  springs  were  fit  to  drink ;  and,  if  they 
were  sweet,  he  would  bring  the  jar  back  full.  ''  Why 
should  you  go  ?"  said  I;  ^' Why  should  not  I  go,  and 
you  stay  in  the  boat  ?"  At  this  Xury  said,  "  if  wild 
mans  come  they  eat  me,  you  go  way."  I  could  not 
but  love  the  lad  for  this  kind  speech.  "  Well,"  said  I^ 
^^  we  will  both  go,  and  if  the  wild  men  come  we  must 
kill  them,  they  shall  not  eat  you  or  me." 

I  gave  Xury  some  rum  from  the  Turk's  case  to  cheer 
him  up,  and  we  went  on  shore.  The  boy  went  olf  with 
his  gun,  full  a  mile  from  the  spot  where  we  stood,  and 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  U 

came  ack  with  a  hare  that  he  had  shot,  which  we 
were  glad  to  cook  and  eat ;  but  the  good  news  which 
he  brought  was  that  he  had  found  a  spring,  and  had 
seen  no  wild  men. 

I  made  a  guess  that  the  Cape  de  Verd  Isles  were 
not  far  off,  for  I  saw  the  top  of  the  Great  Peak,  which 
I  knew  was  near  them.  My  one  hope  was  that  if  I 
kept  near  the  coast,  I  should  find  some  ship  that  would 
take  us  on  board ;  and  then,  and  not  till  then,  should  I 
feel  a  free  man.  In  a  word,  I  put  the  whole  of  my 
fate  on  this  chance,  that  I  must  meet  with  some  ship, 
or  die. 

On  the  coast  we  saw  some  men  who  stood  to  look 
at  us.  They  were  black,  and  wore  no  clothes.  I  would 
hare  gone  on  shore  to  them,  but  Xury — who  knew  best 
— said,  '^  Not  you  go !  Not  you  go !"  So  I  brought 
the  boat  as  near  the  land  as  I  could,  that  I  might  talk 
to  them,  and  they  kept  up  with  me  a  long  way.  I  saw 
that  one  of  them  had  a  lance  in  his  hand. 

I  made  signs  that  they  should  bring  me  some  food, 
and  they  on  their  part  made  signs  for  me  to  stop  my 
boat.  So  I  let  down  the  top  of  my  sail,  and  lay  by, 
wliile  two  of  them  ran  off;  and  in  less  than  half  an  hour 
they  came  back  with  some  dry  meat  and  a  sort  of  corn 
which  is  grown  in  this  part  of  the  world.  This  we 
should  have  been  glad  to  get,  but  knew  not  how  to 
do  so ;  for  we  durst  not  go  on  shore  to  them,  nor  did 
they  dare  to  come  to  us. 


14  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

At  last  they  took  a  safe  way  for  us  all,  for  they 
brought  the  food  to  the  shore,  where  they  set  it  down, 
and  then  went  a  long  way  off  while  we  took  it  in.  We 
made  signs  to  show  our  thanks,  for  we  had  not  a  thing 
that  we  could  spare  to  give  them. 

But  as  good  luck  would  have  it,  we  were  at  hand 
to  take  a  great  prize  for  them ;  for  two  wild  beasts,  of 
the  same  kind  as  the  first  I  spoke  of,  came  in  full  chase 
from  the  hills  down  to  the  sea. 

They  swam  as  if  they  had  come  for  sport.  The  men 
flew  from  them  in  fear,  all  ))ut  the  one  who  held  the 
lance.  One  of  these  beasts  came  near  our  boat ;  so  I 
lay  in  wait  for  him  with  my  gun ;  and  as  soon  as  the 
brute  was  in  range,  I  shot  him  through  the  head.  Twice 
he  sank  down  in  the  sea,  and  twice  he  came  up ;  and 
then  just  swam  to  the  land,  where  he  fell  down  dead. 
The  men  were  in  as  much  fear  at  the  sound  of  my  gun, 
as  they  had  been  at  the  sight  of  the  beasts.  But  when 
I  made  signs  for  them  to  come  to  the  shore,  they  took 
heart,  and  came. 

They  at  once  made  for  their  prize ;  and  by  the  help 
of  a  rope,  which  they  slung  round  him,  they  brought 
him  safe  on  the  beach. 

We  now  left  our  wild  men,  and  went  on  and  on,  for 
twelve  days  more.  The  land  in  front  of  us  ran  out 
four  or  five  miles,  like  a  bill ;  and  we  had  to  keep  some 
way  from  the  coast,  to  make  this  point,  so  that  we  lost 
sight  of  the  sliore. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  15 

I  gave  the  helm  to  Xury  and  sat  down  to  think  what 
would  be  my  best  course  to  take :  when  all  at  once  I 
heard  the  lad  cry  out  ^^  A  ship  with  a  sail !  A  ship  with 
a  sail!"  He  did  not  show  much  joy  at  the  sight,  for 
he  thought  that  this  ship  had  been  sent  out  to  take 
him  back :  but  I  knew  well,  from  the  look  of  her,  that 
she  was  not  one  of  the  Turk's. 

I  made  all  the  sail  I  could  to  come  in  the  ship's  way, 
and  told  Xury  to  fire  a  gun,  in  the  hope  that  if  those 
on  deck  could  not  hear  the  sound,  they  might  see  the 
smoke.  This  they  did  see,  and  then  let  down  their 
sails  so  that  we  might  come  up  to  them,  and  in  three 
hours  time  we  were  at  the  ship's  side.  The  men  spoke 
to  us  in  French,  but  I  could  not  make  out  what  they 
meant.  At  last  a  Scot  on  board  said  in  my  own  tongue, 
"  Who  are  you  ?  Whence  do  you  come  ?"  I  told  him 
in  a  few  words  how  I  had  got  free  from  the  Moors. 

Then  the  man  who  had  charge  of  the  ship  bade  me 
come  on  board,  and  took  me  in  with  Xury  and  all  my 
goods.  I  told  him  that  he  might  take  all  I  had,  but 
he  said  ^'You  shall  have  your  goods  back  when  we 
come  to  land,  for  I  have  but  done  for  you  what  you 
would  have  done  for  me,  had  I  been  in  the  same 
phght." 

He  gave  me  a  good  rouijd  sum  for  my  boat,  and 
said  that  I  should  have  the  same  sum  for  Xury,  if  I 
would  part  with  him.  But  I  told  him  that  as  it  was  by 
the  boy's  help  that  I  had  got  free,  I  was  loath  to  sell 


16  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

him.  He  said  it  was  just  and  right  in  me  to  feel  thus^ 
but  at  tlie  same  time,  if  I  could  make  up  my  mind  to 
part  with  him,  he  should  be  set  free  in  two  years'  time. 
So,  as  the  poor  slave  had  a  Avish  to  go  with  him,  I  did 
not  say  ''  no."  I  got  to  All  Saints'  Bay  in  tln-ee  weeks, 
and  was  now  a  free  man. 

I  had  made  a  good  sum  by  all  mj^  store,  and  with 
this  I  went  on  land.  But  I  did  not  at  all  know  what  to 
do  next.  At  length  I  met  with  a  man  whose  case  was 
much  the  same  as  my  own,  and  we  both  took  some 
land  to  farm.  My  stock,  like  his,  was  low,  but  we  made 
our  farms  serve  to  keep  us  in  food,  though  not  more 
than  that.  We  both  stood  in  need  of  help,  and  I  saw 
now  that  I  had  done  wrong  to  part  with  my  boy. 

I  did  not  at  all  like  this  kind  of  life.  What !  thought 
I,  have  I  come  all  this  way  to  do  that  which  I  could 
have  done  as  well  at  home  with  my  friends  round  me ! 
And  to  add  to  my  grief,  the  khid  friend,  who  had 
brought  me  here  in  his  ship,  now  meant  to  leave  these 
shores. 

On  my  first  start  to  sea  when  a  boy,  I  had  put  a 
small  sum  in  the  hands  of  an  aunt,  ^nd  this  my  friend 
said  I  should  do  well  to  spend  on  my  farm.  So  when 
he  got  home  he  sent  some  of  it  in  cash,  and  laid  out 
the  rest  in  cloth,  stuffs,  baize,  and  such  like  goods.  .  My 
aunt  had  put  a  few  pounds  in  my  friend's  hands  as  a 
gift  to  him,  to  show  her  thanks  for  all  that  he  had  done 
for  me,  and  with  tliis  sum  he  was  so  kind  as  to  buy  me 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  IT 

a  slave.  In  the  mean  time  I  had  bought  a  slave, 
so  now  I  had  two,  and  all  went  on  well  for  the  next 
year. 

But  soon  my  plans  grew  too  large  for  my  means. 
One  day  some  men  came  to  ask  me  to  take  charge  of 
a  slave  ship  to  be  sent  out  by  them.  They  said  they 
would  give  me  a  share  in  the  slaves,  and  pay  the  cost 
of  the  stock.  This  would  have  been  a  good  thing  for 
me  if  I  had  not  had  farms  and  land ;  but  it  was  wild 
and  rash  to  thinly  of  it  now,  for  I  had  made  a  large 
sum,  and  ought  to  have  gone  on  in  the  same  way  for 
three  or  four  years  more.  Well,  I  told  these  men  that 
I  would  go  with  all  my  heart,  if  they  would  look  to  my 
farm  in  the  mean  time,  which  they  said  they  would  do. 

So  I  made  my  will,  and  went  on  board  this  ship  on 
the  same  day  on  which,  eight  years  since,  I  had  left 
Hull.  She  had  six  guns,  twelve  men,  and  a  boy.  We 
took  with  us  saws,  chains,  toys,  beads,  bits  of  glass, 
and  such  like  ware,  to  suit  the  taste  of  those  with  whom 
we  had  to  trade. 

We  were  not  more  than  twelve  days  from  the  Line, 
when  a  high  wind  took  us  off  we  knew  not  where.  All 
at  once  there  was  a  cry  of  ''Land!"  and  the  ship  struck 
on  a  bank  of  sand,  in  which  she  sank  so  deep  that  we 
could  not  get  her  off.  At  last  we  found  that  we  must 
make  up  our  minds  to  leave  her,  and  get  to  shore  as 
well  as  we  could.  There  had  been  a  boat  at  her  stem^ 
but  we  found  it  had  been  torn  off  by  the  force  of  the 


18  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

waves.  One  small  boat  was  still  left  on  the  ship's  side, 
so  we  got  hi  it. 

There  we  were  all  of  us  on  the  wild  sea.  The  heart 
of  each  now  grew  faint,  our  cheeks  were  pale,  and  our 
eyes  were  dim,  for  there  was  but  one  hope,  and  that 
was  to  find  some  bay,  and  so  get  in  the  lee  of  the  land. 
We  now  gave  up  our  whole  souls  to  God. 

The  sea  grew  more  and  more  rough,  and  its  white 
foam  would  curl  and  boil.  At  last  the  waves,  in  their 
wild  sport,  burst  on  the  boat's  side,  and  we  were  all 
thrown  out. 

I  could  swim  well,  but  the  force  of  the  waves  made 
me  lose  my  breath  too  much  to  do  so.  At  length  one 
large  wave  took  me  to  the  shore,  and  left  me  high  and 
dry,  though  half  dead  with  fear.  I  got  on  my  feet  and 
made  the  best  of  my  way  for  the  land ;  but  just  then 
the  curve  of  a  huge  wave  rose  up  as  high  as  a  hill,  and 
this  I  had  no  strength  to  keep  from,  so  it  took  me  back 
to  the  sea.  I  did  my  best  to  float  on  the  top,  and  held 
my  breath  to  do  so.  The  next  wave  was  quite  as  high, 
and  shut  me  up  in  its  bulk.  I  held  my  hands  down 
tiglit  to  my  side,  and  then  my  head  shot  out  at  the  top 
of  the  waves.  This  gave  me  heart  and  breath  too, 
and  soon  my  feet  felt  the  ground. 

I  stood  quite  still  for  a  short  time,  to  let  the  sea  run 
l3ack  from  me,  and  then  I  set  off  with  all  my  might  to 
the  shore,  but  yet  the  waves  caught  me,  and  twice 
more  did  they  take  me  back,  and  twice  more  land  me 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  19 

on  the  shore.  I  thought  the  last  wave  would  have  been 
the  death  of  me,  for  it  drove  me  on  a  piece  of  rock, 
and  with  such  force,  as  to  leave  me  m  a  kmd  of  swoon, 
which,  thank  God,  did  not  last  long.  At  length,  to  my 
great  joy,  I  got  up  to  the  cliffs  close  to  the  shore,  where 
I  found  some  grass,  out  of  the  reach  of  the  sea.  There 
I  sat  down,  safe  on  land  at  last. 

I  could  but  cry  out  in  the  words  of  the  Psalm, 
•"  They  that  go  down  to  the  sea  in  ships,  these  men  see 
the  works  of  the  Lord  in  the  deep.  For  at  His  word 
the  storms  rise,  the  winds  blow,  and  lift  up  the  waves ; 
then  do  they  mount  to  the  sky,  and  from  thence  go 
down  to  the  deep.  My  soul  famts,  I  reel  to  and  fro, 
and  am  at  my  wit's  end :  then  the  Lord  brings  me  out 
of  all  my  fears." 

I  felt  so  wrapt  in  joy,  that  all  I  could  do  was  to  walk 
up  and  down  the  coast,  now  lift  up  my  hands,  now  fold 
them  on  my  breast,  and  thank  God  for  all  that  He  had 
done  for  me,  when  the  rest  of  the  men  were  lost.  .  All 
lost  but  I,  and  I  was  safe !  I  now  cast  my  eyes  round 
me,  to  find  out  what  kind  of  a  place  it  was  that  I  had 
been  thus  thrown  in,  hke  a  bird  in  a  storm.  Then  all 
the  glee  I  felt  at  first  left  me ;  for  I  was  wet  and  cold, 
arid  had  no  dry  clothes  to  put  on,  no  food  to  eat,  and 
not  a  friend  to  help  me. 

There  were  wild  beasts  here,  but  I  had  no  gun  to 
shoot  them  with,  or  to  keep  me  from  then  jaws.  I  had 
but  a  knife  and  a  pipe. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 


It  now  grew  dark ;  and  where  was  I  to  go  for  the 
night  ?  I  thought  tiie  top  of  some  high  tree  would  be 
a  good  place  to  keep  me  out  of  harm's  way;  and  that 
there  I  might  sit  and  think  of  death,  for,  as  yet,  I  had 
no  hopes  of  life.  Well,  I  went  to  my  tree,  and  made 
a  khid  of  nest  to  sleep  in.  Then  I  cut  a  stick  to  keep 
off*  the  beasts  of  prey,  in  case  they  should  come,  and 
fell  to  sleep  just  as  if  the  branch  I  lay  on  had  been  a 
bed  of  down. 

When  I  woke  up  it  was  broad  day ;  the  sky  too  was 
clear  and  tlie  sea  calm.  But  I  saw  from  the  top  of  the 
tree  that  in  tlie  night  the  ship  had  left  the  bank  of  sand, 
and  lay  ])ut  a  mile  from  me ;  while  the  boat  was  on  the 
beach,  two  miles  on  my  right.  I  went  some  way  down 
by  the  shore,  to  get  to  the  boat ;  but  an  arai  of  the 
sea,  half  a  mile  Inroad,  kept  me  from  it.  At  noon,  the 
tide  went  a  long  way  out,  so  that  I  could  get  near  the 
ship ;  and  here  I  found  that  if  we  had  but  made  up  our 
minds  to  stay  on  board,  we  should  all  have  l:>een  safe. 

I  shed  tears  at  the  thought,  for  I  could  not  help  it ; 
yet,  as  there  was  no  use  in  that,  it  struck  me  that  the 
best  thing  for  me  to  do  was  to  swim  to  the  ship.  I 
soon  threw  off  my  clothes,  took  to  the  sea,  and  swam 
up  to  the  wreck.  But  how  was  I  to  get  on  deck  ?  I 
had  swam  twice  round  the  ship,  when  a  piece  of  rope 
caught  my  eye,  which  hung  down  from  her  side  so  low, 
that  at  first  the  waves  liid  it.  By  the  help  of  this  rope 
I  got  on  board. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  21 

I  found  that  there  was  a  bulge  in  the  sliip,  and  that 
she  had  sprung  a  leak.  You  may  l^e  sure  that  my  first 
thought  was  to  look  round  for  some  food,  and  I  soon 
made  my  way  to  the  bin,  where  the  bread  was  kept,  and 
ate  some  of  it  as  I  went  to  and  fro,  for  there  was  no  time 
to  lose.  There  was,  too,  some  rum,  of  which  I  took  a 
good  draught,  and  this  gave  me  heart.  What  I  stood 
most  in  need  of,  was  a  boat  to  take  the  goods  to  shore. 
But  it  was  vain  to  wish  for  that  which  could  not  be  had ; 
and  as  there  were  some  spare  yards  in  the  ship,  two  or 
three  large  planks  of  wood,  and  a  spare  mast  or  two,  I 
fell  to  work  with  these,  to  make  a  raft. 

I  put  four  spars  side  by  side,  and  laid  short  bits  of 
plank  on  them,  cross  ways,  to  make  my  raft  strong. 
Though  these  planks  would  bear  my  own  weight,  they 
were  too  slight  to  bear  much  of  my  freight.  So  I  took 
a  saA^  wliich  was  on  board,  and  cut  a  mast  in  three 
lengths,  and  these  gave  great  strength  to  the  raft.  I 
found  some  bread  and  rice,  a  Dutch  cheese,  and  some 
dry  goat's  flesh.  There  had  been  some  wheat,  but  the 
rats  had  got  at  it,  and  it  was  all  gone. 

My  next  task  was  to  screen  my  goods  from  the  spray 
of  the  sea ;  and  it  did  not  take  me  long  to  do  this,  for 
there  were  three  large  chests  on  board  which  held  all, 
and  these  I  put  on  the  raft.  When  the  high  tide  came 
up  it  took  off  my  coat  and  shirt,  which  I  had  left  on 
the  shore ;  but  there  were  some  fresh  oirothes  in  the  ship. 

^^See  here  is  a  prize!"   said  I,  out  loud,   (though 


22  ROBIN  SONCRUSOE. 

there  were  none  to  hear  me),  "  now  I  shall  not  starve.'' 
For  I  found  four  large  guns.  But  how  was  my  raft  to 
be  got  to  land  ?  I  had  no  sail,  no  oars ;  and  a  gust  of 
wind  would  make  all  my  store  sUde  off.  Yet  there 
were  three  things  which  I  was  glad  of;  a  calm  sea,  a 
tide  which  set  in  to  the  shore,  and  a  slight  breeze  to 
blow  me  there. 

I  had  the  good  luck  to  find  some  oars  in  a  paii:  of 
the  ship,  in  which  I  had  made  no  search  till  now.  With 
these  I  put  to  sea,  and  for  half  a  mile  my  raft  went 
>yell ;  but  soon  I  found  it  drove  to  one  side.  At  length 
I  saw  a  creek,  to  which,  with  some  toil,  I  took  my  raft ; 
and  now  the  beach  was  so  near,  that  I  felt  my  oar 
touch  the  ground. 

Here  I  had  well  nigh  lost  my  freight,  for  the  shore 
lay  on  a  slope,  so  that  there  was  no  place  to  land  on, 
save  where  one  end  of  the  raft  would  lie  so  high,  and 
one  end  so  low,  that  all  my  goods  would  fall  off.  To 
wait  till  the  tide  came  up  was  all  that  could  be  done. 
So  when  the  sea  was  a  foot  deep,  I  thrust  the  raft  on  a 
flat  piece  of  ground,  to  moor  her  there,  and  stuck  my 
two  oars  in  the  sand,  one  on  each  side  of  the  raft. 
Thus  I  let  her  lie  till  the  ebb  of  the  tide,  and  when  it 
went  down,  she  was  left  safe  on  land  with  all  her  freight. 

I  saw  that  there  were  birds  on  the .  isle,  and  I  shot 
one  of  them.  ]\Iine  must  have  been  the  first  gun  that 
had  been  heard  there  since  the  world  was  made ;  for  at 
the  sound  of  it,  whole  flocks  of  birds  flew  up,  with  loud 


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*  ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  2^' 

cries,  from  all  parts  of  the  wood.  The  shape  of  the 
beak  of  the  one  I  shot  was  hke  that  of  a  hawk,  but  the 
claws  were  not  so  large. 

I  now  went  back  to  my  raft  to  land  my  stores,  and 
this  took  up  the  rest  of  the  day.  What  to  do  at  night 
I  knew  not,  nor  where  to  find  a  safe  place  to  land  my 
stores  on.  I  did  not  like  to  lie  down  on  the  ground, 
for  fear  of  beasts  of  prey,  as  well  as  snakes,  but  there 
was  no  cause  for  these  fears,  as  I  have  since  found.  I 
put  the  chests  and  boards  round  me  as  well  as  I  could,, 
and  made  a  kind  of  hut  for  the  night. 

As  there  was  still  a  great  store  of  things  left  in  the 
ship,  which  would  be  of  use  to  me,  I  thought  that  I 
ought  to  bring  them  to  land  at  once ;  for  I  knew  that 
the  first  storm  would  break  up  the  ship.  So  I  went  on 
board,  and  took  good  care  this  time  not  to  load  my 
raft  too  much. 

The  first  thing  I  sought  for  was  the  tool  chest;  and 
in  it  were  some  bags  of  nails,  spikes,  saws,  knives,  and 
such  things :  but  best  of  all,  I  found  a  stone  to  grind 
my  tools  on.  There  were  two  or  three  flasks,  some 
large  bags  of  shot,  and  a  roll  of  lead ;  but  this  last  I 
had  not  the  strength  to  hoist  up  to  the  ship's  side,  so 
as  to  get  it  on  my  raft.  There  were  some  spare  sails 
too,  which  I  brought  to  shore. 

I  had  some  fear  lest  my  stores  might  be  run  off  with 
by  beasts  of  prey,  if  not  by  men ;  but  I  found  all  safe 
and  sound  when  I  went  back,  and  no  one  had  come 


24  R  0  B  i  N  S  0  X     C  R  U  S  0  E  . 

tliere  but  a  wild  cat,  which  sat  on  one  of  the  cliests. 
When  I  came  up  I  held  my  gun  at  her,  but  as  she  (hd 
not  know  what  a  gun  was,  this  did  not  rouse  her.  She 
ate  a  piece  of  dry  goat's  flesh,  and  then  took  her  leave. 

Xow  that  I  had  two  freights  of  goods  at  hand,  I 
made  a  tent  with  the  ship's  sails,  to  stow  them  in,  and 
cut  the  poles  for  it  from  the  wood.  I  now  took  all  the 
things  out  of  the  casks  and  clussts,  and  put  the  casks 
in  piles  round  the  tent,  to  give  it  strength ;  and  wlien 
this  was  done,  I  shut  up  the  door  with  the  boards,  spread 
one  of  the  beds  (which  I  had  brought  from  the  ship) 
on  the  ground,  laid  two  guns  close  to  my  head,  and 
went  to  bed  for  the  first  time.  I  slept  all  night,  for  I 
was  much  in  need  of  rest. 

The  next  day  I  was  sad  and  sick  at  heart,  for  I  felt 
how  dull  it  was  to  be  thus  cut  off  from  all  the  rest  of 
the  world !  I  had  no  great  wish  for  work :  but  there 
was  too  much  to  be  done  for  me  to  dwell  long  on  my 
sad  lot.  Each  day,  as  it  came,  I  went  off'  to  the  Avreck 
to  fetch  more  things ;  and  I  brought  back  as  much  as 
the  raft  would  hold.  One  day  I  had  put  too  great  a 
load  on  the  raft,  which  made  it  sink  down  on  one  side, 
so  that  the  goods  were  lost  in  the  sea ;  but  at  this  I 
did  not  fret,  as  the  chief  pait  of  the  freight  was  some 
rope,  which  would  not  have  been  of  much  use  to  me. 

The  twelve  days  that  I  had  been  in  the  isle  were 
spent  in  this  way,  and  I  had  brought  to  land  all  that 
one  pair  of  hands  could  lift;   though  if  the  sea  had 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  25 

been  still  calm,  I  might  have  brought  the  whole  ship, 
piece  by  piece. 

The  last  time  I  swam  to  the  wreck,  the  wind  blew  so 
hard,  that  I  made  up  my  mind  to  go  on  board  next 
time  at  low  tide.  I  found  some  tea  and  some  gold 
coin ;  but  as  to  the  gold,  it  made  me  laugh  to  look  at 
it.  ^'  0  (Jrug ! "  said  I,  '^  Thou  art  of  no  use  to  me !  I 
care  not  to  save  thee.  Stay  where  thou  art,  till  the  ship 
go  down,  then  go  thou  with  it ! " 

Still,  I  thought  I  might  as  well  just  take  it ;  so  I  put 
it  in  a  piece  of  the  sail,  and  threw  it  on  deck  that  I 
might  place  it  on  the  raft.  Bye-and-bye,  the  wind  blew 
from  the  shore,  so  I  had  to  swim  back  with  all  speed ; 
for  I  knew  that  at  the  turn  of  the  tide,  I  should  find  it 
hard  work  to  get  to  land  at  all.  But  m  spite  of  the 
high  wind,  I  came  to  my  home  all  safe.  At  dawn  of 
day  I  put  my  head  out,  and  cast  my  eyes  on  the  sea. 
When  lo !  no  ship  was  there ! 

This  change  in  the  face  of  things,  and  the  loss  of  such 
a  friend,  quite  struck  me  down.  Yet  I  was  glad  to 
think  that  I  had  brought  to  shore  all  that  could  be 
of  use  to  me.  I  had  now  to  look  out  for  some  spot, 
where  I  could  make  my  home.  Half  way  up  a  hill 
there  was  a  small  plain,  four  or  five  score  feet  long,  and 
twice  as  broad ;  and  as  it  had  a  full  view  of  the  sea,  I 
thought  that  it  would  be  a  good  place  for  my  house. 

I  first  dug  a  trench  round  a  space  which  took  in 
twelve  yards ;  and  in  this  I  drove  two  rows  of  stakes, 


26  ROBIN  SONCRUSOE. 

till  they  stood  firm  like  piles,  five  and  a  half  feet  from 
the  ground.  I  made  the  stakes  close  and  tight  with 
bits  of  rope ;  and  put  small  sticks  on  the  top  of  them 
in  the  shape  of  spikes.  This  made  so  strong  a  fence 
that  no  man  or  beast  could  get  in. 

The  door  of  my  house  was  on  the  top,  and  I  had  to 
climb  up  to  it  by  steps,  which  I  took  in  with  me,  so 
that  no  one  else  might  come  up  by  the  same  way. 
Close  to  the  back  of  the  house  stood  a  high  rock,  in 
which  I  made  a  cave,  and  laid  all  the  earth  that  I  had 
dug  out  of  it  round  my  house,  to  the  height  of  a  foot 
and  a  half  I  had  to  go  out  once  a  day  in  search  of 
food.  The  first  time,  I  saw  some  goats,  but  they  w^ere 
too  shy  and  swift  of  foot,  to  let  me  get  near  them. 

At  last  I  lay  in  wait  for  them  close  to  their  own 
haunts.  If  they  saw  me  in  the  vale,  though  they  might 
be  on  high  ground,  they  would  run  off*  wild  with  fear ; 
but  if  they  were  in  the  vale,  and  I  on  high  ground, 
they  took  no  heed  of  me.  The  first  goat  I  shot  had  a 
kid  by  her  side,  and  when  the  old  one  fell,  the  kid  stood 
near  her,  till  I  took  her  off  on  my  back,  and  then  the 
young  one  ran  by  my  side.  I  put  down  the  goat,  and 
brought  the  kid  home  to  tame  it;  but  as  it  was  too 
young  to  feed,  I  had  to  kill  it. 

At  first  I  thought  that,  for  the  lack  of  pen  and  ink. 
I  should  lose  all  note  of  time ;  so  I  made  a  large  post, 
in  the  shape  of  a  cross,  on  which  I  cut  these  w  ords,  "  I 
came  on  these  shores  on  the  8th  day  of  June,  in  the 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  27 

year  1659."  On  the  side  of  this  post  I  made  a  notch 
each  day  as  it  came,  and  this  I  kept  up  till  the  last. 

I  have  not  yet  said  a  word  of  my  four  pets,  which 
were  two  cats,  a  dog,  and  a  bird.  You  may  guess  how 
fond  I  was  of  them,  for  they  were  all  the  friends  left 
to  me.  I  brought  the  dog  and  two  cats  from  the  ship. 
The  dog  would  fetch  things  for  me  at  all  times,  and  by 
liis  bark,  his  whine,  his  growl,  and  his  tricks,  he  would 
all  but  tall^  to  me ;  yet  he  could  not  give  me  thought 
for  thought. 

If  I  could  but  have  had  some  one  near  me  to  find 
fault  with,  or  to  find  fault  with  me,  what  a  treat  it  would 
have  been !  Ifow  that  I  had  brought  ink  from  the  ship, 
I  wrote  down  a  sketch  of  each  day  as  it  came ;  not  so 
much  to  leave  to  those  who  might  read  it,  when  I  was 
dead  and  gone,  -as  to  get  rid  of  my  own  thoughts,  and 
draw  me  from  the  fears  which  all  day  long  dwelt  on 
my  mind,  till  my  head  would  ache  with  the  weight  of 
them. 

I  was  a  long  way  out  of  the  course  of  ships :  and 
oh,  how  dull  it  was  to  be  cast  on  this  lone  spot  with  no 
one  to  love,  no  one  to  make  me  laugh,  no  one  to  make 
me  weep,  no  one  to  make  me  think.  It  was  dull  to 
roam,  day  by  day,  from  the  wood  to  the  shore ;  and 
from  the  shore  back  to  the  wood,  and  feed  on  my  own 
thoughts  all  the  while. 

So  much  for  the  sad  ^dew  of  my  case ;  but  like  most 
things,  it  had  a  bright  side  as  well  as  a  dark  one.     For 


:28  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

here  was  I  safe  on  land,  while  all  the  rest  of  the  ship's 
crew  were  lost.  Well,  thought  I,  God  who  shapes  our 
ways,  and  led  me  by  the  hand  then,  can  save  me  from 
this  state  now,  or  send  some  one  to  be  with  me ;  tmc,  I 
am  cast  on  a  rough  and  rude  part  of  the  glo))e,  but  there 
are  no  beasts  of  prey  on  it  to  kill  or  hurt  me.  God  has 
8ent  the  ship  so  near  to  me,  that  I  have  got  from  it  all 
things  to  meet  my  wants  for  the  rest  of  my  days.  Let 
life  be  what  it  may,  there  is  sure  to  be  much  to  thank 
God  for;  and  I  soon  gave  up  all  dull  thoughts,  and  did 
not  so  much  as  look  out  for  a  sail. 

My  goods  from  the  wreck  had  been  in  the  cave  for 
more  than  ten  months;  and  it  was  time  now  to  put 
them  right,  as  they  took  up  all  the  space,  and  left  me 
no  room  to  turn  m :  so  I  made  my  small  cave  a  large 
one,  and  dug  it  out  a  long  way  back  in  the  sand  rock. 
Then  I  brought  the  mouth  of  it  up  to  the  fence,  and  so 
made  a  back  way  to  my  house.  This  done,  I  put 
shelves  on  each  side,  to  hold  my  goods,  which  made  my 
cave  look  hke  a  shop  full  of  stores.  To  make  these 
shelves  I  cut  down  a  tree,  and  with  the  help  of  a  saw, 
an  axe,  a  plane,  and  some  more  tools,  I  made  boards. 

A  chair,  and  a  desk  to  write  on,  came  next.  I  rose 
in  good  time,  and  set  to  work  till  noon,  then  I  ate  my 
meal,  then  I  went  out  with  my  gun,  and  to  work  once 
more  till  the  sun  had  set ;  and  then  to  bed.  It  took  me 
more  than  a  week  to  change  the  shape  and  size  of  my 
<3ave,  but  I  had  made  it  far  too  large ;  for  in  course  of 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  29- 

time  the  earth  fell  in  from  the  roof;  and  had  I  been  in 
it,  when  this  took  place,  I  should  have  lost  my  life.  I 
had  now  to  set  up  posts  in  my  cave,  with  planks  on 
the  top  of  them,  so  as  to  make  a  roof  of  wood. 

One  day,  when  out  with  my  gun,  I  shot  a  wild  cat,, 
the  skin  of  which  made  me  a  cap ;  and  I  found  some 
birds  of  the  dove  tribe,  which  built  their  nests  in  the 
holes  of  rocks. 

I  had  to  go  to  bed  at  dusk,  till  I  made  a  lamp  of 
goat's  fat,  which  I  put  in  a  clay  dish ;  and  this,  with  a 
piece  of  hemp  for  a  wick,  made  a  good  light.  As  I 
had  found  a  use  for  the  bag  which  had  held  the  fowl's 
food  on  board  ship,  I  shook  out  from  it  the  husks  of 
corn.  This  was  just  at  the  time  when  the  great  rains 
fell,  and  in  the  course  of  a  month,  blades  of  rice,  com, 
and  rye,  sprang  up.  As  time  went  by,  and  the  grain 
was  ripe,  I  kept  it,  and  took  care  to  sow  it  each  year ; 
but  I  could  not  boast  of  a  ^  crop  of  wheat,  as  will  be 
shown  bye-and-bye,  for  three  years. 

A  thing  now  took  place  on  the  isle,  which  no  one 
could  have  dreamt  of,  and  which  struck  me  down  with 
fear.  It  was  this — the  ground  shook  with  great  force, 
which  threw  down  earth  from  the  rock  with  a  loud  crash 
■ — once  more  there  was  a  shock — and  now  the  earth  fell 
from  the  roof  of  my  cave.  The  sea  did  not  look  the 
same  as  it  had  done,  for  the  shocks  were  just  as  strong 
there  as  on  land.  The  sway  of  the  earth  made  me  feel 
sick ;  and  there  was  a  noise  and  a  roar  all  round  me. 


30  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

The  same  kind  of  shock  came  a  thu'd  time;  and 
when  it  had  gone  off*  I  sat  quite  still  on  the  ground, 
for  I  knew  not  what  to  do.  Then  the  clouds  grew  dark, 
the  wind  rose,  trees  were  torn  up  by  the  roots,  the  sea 
was  a  mass  of  foam  and  froth,  and  a  great  part  of  the 
isle  was  laid  waste  with  the  storm.  I  thought  that  the 
world  had  come  to  an  end.  In  three  hours'  time  all 
was  calm ;  but  rain  fell  all  that  night,  and  a  great  part 
of  the  next  day.  jN^ow,  though  quite  worn  out,  I  had 
to  move  my  goods  which  were  in  the  cave,  to  some 
safe  place. 

I  knew  that  tools  would  be  my  first  want,  and  that 
I  should  have  to  grind  mine  on  the  stone,  as  they  were 
blunt  and  worn  Avith  use.  But  as  it  took  both  hands 
to  hold  the  tool,  I  could  not  turn  the  stone ;  so  I  made 
a  wheel  by  which  I  could  move  it  with  my  foot.  This 
was  no  small  task,  but  I  took  great  pains  with  it,  and 
at  length  it  was  done. 

The  rain  fell  for  some  days  and  a  cold  cliiU  came  on 
me ;  in  short  I  was  ill.  I  had  pains  in  my  head,  and 
could  get  no  sleep  at  night,  and  my  thoughts  were  wild 
and  strange.  At  one  time  I  shook  with  cold,  and  then 
a  hot  fit  came  on,  with  faint  sweats,  which  would  last 
six  hours  at  a  tune.  Ill  as  I  was,  I  had  to  go  out  with 
my  gun  to  get  food.  I  shot  a  goat,  but  it  was  a  great 
toil  to  bring  it  home,  and  still  more  to  cook  it. 

I  spent  tlie  next  day  in  bed,  and  felt  half  dead  from 
tliirst,  yet  too  Aveak  to  stand  up  to  get  some  drink.     I 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  31 

lay  and  wept  like  a  child.  ^'  Lord  look  on  me !  Lord 
look  on  me ! "   would  I  cry  for  hours. 

At  last  the  fit  left  me,  and  I  slept,  and  did  not  wake 
till  dawn.  I  dreamt  that  I  lay  on  the  ground,  and  saw 
a  man  come  down  from  a  great  black  cloud  in  a  flame 
of  light.  When  he  stood  on  the  earth,  it  shook  as  it 
had  done  a  few  days  since ;  and  all  the  world  to  me 
was  full  of  fire.  He  came  up  and  said  ^'  As  I  see  that 
all  these  things  have  not  brought  thee  to  pray,  now  thou 
shalt  die."  Then  I  woke,  and  found  it  was  a  dream. 
Weak  and  faint,  I  was  in  dread  all  day  lest  my  fit  should 
come  on. 

Too  ill  to  get  out  with  my  gun,  I  sat  on  the  shore  to 
think,  and  thus  ran  my  thoughts:  ^'What  is  this  sea 
which  is  all  round  me?  and  whence  is  it?  There  can 
be  no  doubt  that  the  hand  that  made  it,  made  the  air, 
the  earth,  the  sky.  And  who  is  that  ?  It  is  God  who 
hath  made  all  things.  Well  then,  if  God  hath  made  all 
things,  it  must  be  He  who  guides  them ;  and  if  so,  no 
one  thing  in  the  whole  range  of  His  works  can  take 
place,  and  He  not  know  it.  Then  God  must  know  how 
sick  and  sad  I  am,  and  He  wills  me  to  be  here.  0, 
why  hath  God  done  this  to  me ! '' 

Then  some  voice  would  seem  to  say,  ^'Dost  thou 
ask  why  God  hath  done  this  to  thee  ?  Ask  why  thou 
wert  not  shot  by  the  Moors,  who  came  on  board  the 
ship,  and  took  the  lives  of  thy  mates.  Ask  why  thou 
wert  not  torn  by  the  beasts  of  prey  on  the  coasts.    Ask 


32  ROBINSON    CRUSOE 

why  thou  didst  not  go  down  in  the  deep  sea  with  the 
rest  of  the  crew,  but  didst  come  to  this  isle,  and  art 
safe." 

A  sound  sleep  then  fell  on  me,  and  when  I  woke  it 
must  have  been  three  o'clock  the  next  day,  by  the  rays 
of  the  sun :  nay,  it  may  have  been  more  than  that ;  for 
I  think  that  this  must  have  been  the  day  that  I  did  not 
mark  on  my  post,  as  I  have  since  found  that  there  was 
one  notch  too  few. 

I  now  took  from  my  store  the  Book  of  God's  Word, 
which  I  had  brought  from  the  wreck,  not  one  page  of 
which  I  had  yet  read.  My  eyes  fell  on  five  words,  that 
would  seem  to  have  been  put  there  for  my  good  at  this 
time ;  so  well  did  they  cheer  my  faint  hopes,  and  touch 
the  true  source  of  my  fears.  They  were  these:  "I 
will  not  leave  thee."  And  they  have  dwelt  in  my  heart 
to  this  day.  I  laid  down  the  book,  to  pray.  My  cry 
was  ^^  0,  Lord,  help  me  to  love  and  learn  thy  ways." 
This  was  the  first  time  in  all  my  life  that  I  had  felt  a 
sense  that  God  was  near,  and  heard  me.  As  for  my 
dull  life  here,  it  Avas  not  worth  a  thought ;  for  now  a 
new  strength  had  come  to  me ;  and  there  was  a  change 
in  my  griefs,  as  well  as  in  my  joys. 

I  had  now  been  in  the  isle  twelve  months,  and  I 
thought  it  was  tune  to  go  all  round  it,  in  search  of  its 
woods,  springs,  and  creeks.  So  I  set  oflF,  and  brought 
back  with  me  limes  and  grapes  in  their  prime,  large 
a.nd  ripe.     I  had  hung  the  grapes  in  the  sun  to  dry^ 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  ,  33^ 

and  in  a  few  days'  time  went  to  fetch  them,  that  I  might 
lay  up  a  store.  The  vale,  on  the  banks  of  which  they 
grew,  was  fresh  and  green,  and  a  clear,  bright  stream 
ran  through  it,  which  gave  so  great  a  charm  to  the 
spot,  as  to  make  me  wish  to  live  there. 

Birt  there  was  no  view  of  the  sea  from  this  vale, 
while  from  my  house,  no  ships  could  come  on  my  side 
of  the  isle,  and  not  be  seen  by  me ;  yet  the  cool,  soft 
banks  were  so  sweet  and  new  to  me  that  much  of  my 
time  was  spent  there. 

In  the  first  of  the  three  years  in  which  I  had  grown 
corn,  I  had  sown  it  too  late ;  in  the  next,  it  was  spoilt 
by  the  drought ;  but  the  third  years'  crop  had  sprung 
up  well. 

I  found  that  the  hares  would  lie  in  it  night  and  day,, 
for  which  there  was  no  cure  but  to  plant  a  thick  hedge 
all  round  it ;  and  this  took  me  more  than  three  weeks 
to  do.  I  shot  the  hares  in  the  day  time ;  and  when  it 
grew  dark,  I  made  fast  the  dog's  chain  to  the  gate,  and 
there  he  stood  to  bark  all  night. 

In  a  short  time  the  corn  grew  strong,  and  at  last  ripe ; 
but,  just  as  the  hares  had  hurt  it  in  the  blade,  so  now 
the  birds  ate  it  in  the  ear.  At  the  noise  of  my  gun, 
whole  flocks  of  them  would  fly  up ;  and  at  this  rate  I 
saw  that  there  would  be  no  corn  left;  so  I  made  up  my 
mind  to  keep  a  look  out  night  and  day.  I  hid  by  the 
side  of  a  hedge,  and  could  see  the  birds  sit  on  the  trees 
and  watch,  and  then  come  down,  one  by  one,  as  at  first. 


34  R  0  B  I  N  S  0  N    C  R  D  S  O  £i . 

jS^ow  each  grain  of  wheat  was,  as  it  were,  a  small 
loaf  of  bread  to  me.  So  the  great  thing  was  to  get  rid 
of  these  birds.  My  plan  was  this,  I  shot  three,  and 
hung  them  up,  like  thieves,  to  scare  all  that  came 
to  the  corn ;  and  from  this  time,  as  long  as  the  dead 
ones  hung  there,  not  a  bird  came  near.  When  the  corn 
was  ripe,  I  made  a  scythe  out  of  the  swords  from  the 
ship,  and  got  in  my  crop. 

Few  of  us  think  of  the  cost  at  which  a  loaf  of  bread 
is  made.  Of  course,  there  was  no  plough  here  to  turn 
up  the  earth,  and  no  spade  to  dig  it  with,  so  I  made 
one  with  wood ;  but  this  was  soon  worn  out,  and  for 
want  of  a  rake,  I  made  use  of  the  bough  of  a  tree. 
When  I  had  got  the  corn  home,  I  had  to  thrash  it,  part 
the  gmin  from  the  chaff,  and  store  it  up.  Then  came 
the  want  of  a  mill  to  grind  it,  of  sieves  to  clean  it,  and 
of  yeast  to  make  bread  of  it. 

Still,  my  bread  was  made,  though  I  had  no  tools ; 
and  no  one  could  say  that  I  did  not  earn  it  by  the 
sweat  of  my  brow.  When  the  rain  kept  me  in  doors, 
it  was  good  fun  to  teach  my  pet  bird  Poll  to  talk ;  but 
so  mute  were  all  things  round  me,  that  the  sound  of 
my  own  voice  made  me  start. 

My  chief  wants  now  were  jars,  pots,  cups,  and  plates, 
but  t  knew  not  how  I  could  make  them.  At  last  I  went 
in  search  of  some  clay,  and  found  some  a  mile  from  my 
house ;  but  it  was  quite  a  joke  to  see  the  queer  shapes 
and  forms  that  I  made  out  of  it.    For  some  of  my  pots 


ROBIN  ri  ON    CRUSOE.  35 

and  jars  were  too  weak  to  bear  their  own  weight;  and 
they  would  fall'  out  here^  and  in  there,  in  all  sorts  of 
ways ;  while  some,  when  they  were  put  in  the  sun  to 
bake,  would  crack  with  the  heat  of  its  rays.  You  may 
guess  what  my  joy  was  when  at  last  a  pot  was  made 
which  would  stand  the  heat  of  the  fire,  so  that  I  could 
boil  the  meat  for  broth. 

The  next  thing  to  be  made  was  a  sieve,  to  part  the 
grain  from  the  husks.  Goat's  hair  was  of  no  use  to 
me,  as  I  could  not  weave  or  spin ;  so  I  made  a  shift  for 
two  years  with  a  thin  kind  of  stuff,  wliich  I  had  brought 
from  the  ship.  But  to  grind  the  corn  with  the  stones 
was  the  worst  of  all,  such  hard  work  did  I  find  it.  To 
bake  the  bread  I  burnt  some  wood  down  to  an  ash, 
which  I  threw  on  the  hearth  to  heat  it,  and  then  set  my 
loaves  on  the  hearth,  and  in  this  way  my  bread  was 
made. 

The  next  thing  to  turn  my  thoughts  to  was  the  ship's 
boat,  which  lay  on  the  high  ridge  of  sand,  where  it  had 
been  thrust  by  the  storm  which  had  cast  me  on  these 
shores.  But  it  lay  with  the  keel  to  the  sky,  so  I  had 
to  dig  the  sand  from  it,  and  turn  it  up  with  the  help  of 
a  pole.  When  I  had  done  this,  I  found  it  was  all  in 
vain,  for  I  had  not  the  strength  to  launch  it.  So  all  I 
could  do  now,  was  to  make  a  boat  of  less  size  out  of 
a  tree ;  and  I  found  one  that  was  just  fit  for  it,  which 
grew  not  far  from  the  shore,  but  I  could  no  more  stir 
this  than  I  could  the  ship's  boat. 


36  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

^Y\mt  was  to  be  done?  I  first  dug  the  ground  flat 
and  smooth  all  the  way  from  the  boat  to  the  sea,  so 
as  to  let  it  sUde  down ;  but  this  plan  did  not  turn  out 
well,  so  I  thought  I  would  try  a  new  way,  which  was 
to  make  a  trench,  so  as  to  bring  the  sea  up  to  the  boat, 
as  the  boat  could  not  be  brought  to  the  sea.  But  to 
do  this,  I  must  have  dug  down  to  a  great  depth,  which 
would  take  one  man  some  years  to  do.  And  when  too 
late,  I  found  it  was  not  wise  to  work  out  a  scheme,  till 
I  had  first  thought  of  the  cost  and  toil. 

'^  Well,"  thought  I,  ''  I  must  give  up  the  boat,  and 
with  it  all  my  hopes  to  leave  the  isle.  But  I  have  this 
to  think  of:  I  am  lord  of  the  whole  isle;  in  fact,  a  king. 
I  have  wood  with  wliich  I  might  build  a  fleet,  and 
grapes,  if  not  corn,  to  freight  it  with,  though  all  my 
wealth  is  but  a  few  gold  coins."  For  these  I  had  no 
soii:  of  use,  and  could  have  found  it  in  my  heart  to  give 
them  all  for  a  peck  of  peas  and  some  ink,  which  last  I 
stood  much  in  need  of  But  it  was  best  to  dwell  more 
on  what  I  had,  than  on  what  I  had  not. 

I  now  must  needs  try  once  more  to  build  a  boat,  but 
this  time  it  was  to  have  a  mast,  for  which  the  ship's 
sails  would  be  of  great  use.  I  made  a  deck  at  each 
end,  to  keep  out  the  spray  of  the  sea,  a  bin  for  my 
food,  and  a  rest  for  my  gun,  with  a  flap  to  screen  it 
fi'om  the  wet.  More  than  all,  the  boat  was  one  of  such 
a  size  that  I  could  launch  it. 

My  first  cmise  was  up  and  down  the  creek,  but  soon 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  37 

I  got  bold,  and  made  the  whole  round  of  my  isle.  I 
took  with  me  bread,  cakes,  and  a  pot  full  of  rice,  some 
rum,  half  a  goat,  two  great  coats,  one  of  which  was  to 
he  on,  and  one  to  put  on  at  night.  I  set  sail  in  the 
sixth  year  of  my  reign.  On  the  East  side  of  the  isle, 
there  was  a  large  ridge  of  rocks,  which  lay  two  miles 
from  the  shore ;  and  a  shoal  of  sand  lay  for  half  a  mile 
from  the  rocks  to  the  beach.  To  get  round  to  this 
point,  I  had  to  sail  a  great  way  out  to  sea ;  and  here 
I  all  but  lost  my  life. 

But  I  got  back  to  my  home  at  last.  On  my  way 
there,  quite  worn  out  with  the  toils  of  the  boat,  I  lay 
down  in  the  shade  to  rest  my  limbs,  and  slept.  But 
judge,  if  you  can,  what  a  start  I  gave,  when  a  voice 
woke  me  out  of  my  sleep,  and  spoke  my  name  three 
times!  A  voice  in  this  wild  place!  To  call  me  by 
name,  too !  Then  the  voice  said,  ^^  Where  are  you  ? 
Where  have  you  been  ?  How  came  you  here  ? "  But 
now  I  saw  it  all ;  for  at  the  top  of  the  hedge  sat  Poll, 
who  did  but  say  the  words  she  had  been  taught  by  me. 

I  now  went  in  search  of  some  goats,  and  laid  snares 
for  them,  with  rice  for  a  bait.  I  had  set  the  traps  in  the 
night,  and  found  they  had  all  stood,  though  the  bait 
was  gone.  So  I  thought  of  a  new  way  to  take  them, 
which  was  to  make  a  pit  and  lay  sticks  and  grass  on  it, 
so  as  to  hide  it ;  and  in  this  way  I  caught  an  old  goat 
and  some  kids.  But  the  old  goat  was  much  too  fierce 
for  me,  so  I  let  him  go. 


3«  ROBINSON    ORUSOE. 

I  brought  ^11  the  young  ones  home,  and  let  them  fast 
a  long  time,  till  at  last  they  fed  from  my  hand,  and  were 
quite  tame.  I  kept  them  in  a  kind  of  park,  in  which 
there  were  trees  to  screen  them  from  the  sun.  At  first 
my  park  was  three  miles  round ;  but  it  struck  me  that, 
in  so  great  a  space,  the  kids  would  soon  get  as  wild  as 
if  they  had  the  range  of  the  whole  vale,  and  that  it 
would  be  as  well  to  give  them  less  room ;  so  I  had  to 
make  a  hedge,  which  took  me  three  months  to  plant. 
jMy  park  held  a  flock  of  twelve  goats,  and  in  two  years 
more  there  were  more  than  two  score. 

]\Iy  dog  sat  at  meals  with  me,  and  one  cat  on  each 
side  of  me,  on  stools,  and  we  had  Poll  to  talk  to  us. 
Now  for  a  word  or  two  as  to  the  dress  in  wliicli  I  made 
a  tour  round  the  isle.  I  could  but  think  how  droll  it 
would  look  in  the  streets  of  the  town  in  which  I  was 
bom.  I  wore  a  high  cap  of  goat's  skm,  with  a  flap 
that  hmig  down,  to  keep  the  sun  and  rain  from  my 
neck,  a  coat  made  from  the  skin  of  a  goat  too,  the 
skirts  of  which  came  down  to  my  hips,  and  the  same 
on  my  legs,  with  no  shoes,  but  flaps  of  the  fur  round 
my  shins.  I  had  a  broad  belt  of  the  same  round  my 
waist,  wliich  drew  on  with  two  thongs ;  and  from  it,  on 
my  right  side,  hung  a  saw  and  an  axe ;  and  on  my  left 
side  a  pouch  for  the  shot.  My  beard  had  not  been  cut 
since  I  came  here.  But  no  more  need  be  said  of  my 
looks,  for  there  were  few  to  see  me. 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  39' 

A  strange  sight  was  now  in  store  for  me,  which  was 
to  change  the  whole  course  of  my  hfe  in  the  isle. 

One  day  at  noon,  while  on  a  stroll  down  to  a  part  of 
the  shore  that  was  new  to  me,  what  should  I  see  on  the 
sand  but  the  prmt  of  a  man's  foot !  I  felt  as  if  I  was 
bound  by  a  spell,  and  could  not  stir  from  the  spot. 

Bye-and-bye,  I  stole  a  look  round  me,  but  no  one 
was  in  sight.  What  could  this  mean?  I  went  three 
or  four  times  to  look  at  it.  There  it  was — the  print  of 
a  man's  foot;  toes,  heel,  and  all  the  parts  of  a  foot. 
How  could  it  have  come  there  ? 

My  head  swam  with  fear ;  and  as  I  left  the  spot,  I 
made  two  or  three  steps,  and  then  took  a  look  round 
me ;  then  two  steps  more,  and  did  the  same  thing.  I 
took  fright  at  the  stump  of  an  old  tree,  and  ran  to  my 
house,  as  if  for  my  life.  How  could  aught  in  the  shape 
of  a  man  come  to  that  shore,  and  I  not  know  it?  Where 
was  the  ship  that  brought  him  ?  Then  a  vague  dread 
took  hold  of  my  muid,  that  some  man,  or  set  of  men, 
had  found  me  out;  and  it  might  be,  that  they  meant  to 
kill  me,  or  rob  me  of  all  I  had. 

How  strange  a  thing  is  the  life  of  man !  One  day 
we  love  that  which  the  next  day  we  hate.  One  day  we 
seek  what  the  next  day  we  shun.  One  day  we  long 
for  the  thing  which  the  next  day  we  fear ;  and  so  we 
go  on.  Now,  from  the  time  that  I  was  cast  on  this  isle, 
my  great  source  of  grief  was  that  I  should  be  thus  cut 
off  from  the  rest  of  my  race.     Why,  then,  should  the 


40  ROBINSON    CRUriOE. 

tliought  that  a  man  might  be  near  give  me  all  this 
pain?  Nay,  why  should  the  mere  sight  of  the  print 
of  a  man's  foot,  make  me  quake  with  fear  ?  It  seems 
most  strange ;  yet  not  more  strange  than  true. 

Once  it  struck  me  that  it  might  be  the  print  of  my 
own  foot,  when  iBirst  the  stonn  cast  me  on  these  shores. 
Could  I  have  come  this  way  from  the  boat  ?  Should 
it  in  truth  turn  out  to  be  the  print  of  my  own  foot,  I 
should  be  like  a  boy  who  tells  of  a  ghost,  and  feels 
more  fright  at  his  own  tale,  than  those  do  whom  he 
meant  to  scare. 

Fear  kept  me  in-doors  for  three  days,  till  the  want 
of  food  drove  me  out.  At  last  I  was  so  bold  as  to  go 
down  to  the  coast  to  look  once  more  at  the  print  of  the 
foot,  to  see  if  it  was  the  same  shape  as  my  own.  I 
found  it  was  not  so  large  by  a  great  deal;  so  it  was 
clear  there  were  men  in  the  isle.  Just  at  this  time  my 
good  watch  dog  fell  down  dead  at  my  feet.  He  was 
old  and  worn  out,  and  in  hun  I  lost  my  best  guard 
and  friend. 

One  day  as  I  went  from  the  hill  to  the  coast,  a  scene 
lay  in  front  of  me  which  made  me  sick  at  heart.  The 
spot  was  spread  with  the  bones  of  men.  There  was  a 
round  place  dug  in  the  earth,  where  a  fire  had  iDcen 
made,  and  here  some  men  had  come  to  feast.  Now 
that  I  had  seen  tliis  sight,  I  knew  not  how  to  act ;  I 
kept  close  to  my  home,  and  would  scarce  stn  from  it, 
save  to  milk  my  flock  of  goats- 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  41 

To  feel  safe  was  now  more  to  me  than  to  be  well 
fed ;  and  I  did  not  care  to  drive  a  nail,  or  chop  a  stick 
of  wood,  lest  the  sound  of  it  should  be  heard,  much 
less  would  I  fii-e  a  gun.  As  to  my  bread  and  meat,  I 
had  to  bake  it  at  night  when  the  smoke  could  not  be 
seen.  But  I  soon  found  the  way  to  burn  wood  with 
turf  at  the  top  of  it,  which  made  it  like  chark,  oi  dry 
coal ;  and  this  I  could  use  by  day,  as  it  had  no  smoke. 

I  found  in  the  wood  where  I  went  to  get  the  sticks 
for  my  fire,  a  cave  so  large  that  I  could  stand  in  it ;  but 
I  made  more  haste  to  get  out,  than  in ;  for  two  large 
eyes,  as  bright  as  stars,  shone  out  from  it  with  a  fierce 
glare.  I  took  a  torch,  and  went  to  see  wjiat  they  could 
be,  and  found  that  there  was  no  cause  for  fear ;  for  the 
eyes  were  those  of  an  old  gray  goat,  which  had  gone 
there  to  die  of  old  age.  I  gave  him  a  push,  to  try  to 
get  him  out  of  the  cave,  but  he  could  not  rise  from  the 
ground  where  he  lay ;  so  I  left  him  there  to  die,  as  I 
could  not  save  his  life. 

I  found  the  width  of  the  cave  was  twelve  feet ;  bul 
part  of  it,  near  the  end,  was  so  low  that  I  had  to  creep 
on  my  hands  and  feet  to  go  in.^  What  the  length  of  it 
was  I  could  not  tell,  for  my  light  went  out,  and  I  had 
to  give  up  my  search.  The  next  day,  I  went  to  the 
cave  with  large  lights  made  of  goat's  fat ;  and  when  I 
got  to  the  end,  I  found  that  the  roof  rose  to  two  score 
feet  or  more. 

As  my  lights  shone  on  the  walls  and  roof  of  the  cave, 


42  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

a  sight  burst  on  my  view,  the  charms  of  which  no 
tongue  could  tell ;  for  the  walls  shone  Uke  stars.  What 
was  in  the  rock  to  cause  this  it  was  hard  to  say ;  they 
might  be  gems,  or  bright  stones,  or  gold.  But  let  them 
be  what  they  may,  this  cave  was  a  mine  of  wealth  to 
me ;  for  at  such  time  as  I  felt  dull  or  sad,  the  bright 
scene  would  flash  on  my  mind's  eye,  and  fill  it  with 

joy. 

A  score  of  years  had  gone  by,  with  no  new  sight  to 
rest  my  eyes  on,  till  this  scene  burst  on  them.  I  felt 
as  if  I  should  like  to  spend  the  rest  of  my  life  here  j 
and  at  its  close,  he  down  to  die  in  this  cave,  like  the 
old  goat. 

As  I  went  home  I  was  struck  by  the  sight  of  some 
smoke,  which  came  from  a  fire  no  more  than  two  miles 
off.  From  this  time  I  lost  all  my  peace  of  mind.  Day 
and  night  a  dread  would  haunt  me,  that  the  men  who 
had  made  this  fire  would  find  me  out.  I  went  home 
and  drew  up  my  steps,  but  first  I  made  all  things  round 
me  look  wild  and  rude.  To  load  my  gun  was  the  next 
thing  to  do,  and  I  thought  it  would  be  best  to  stay  at 
home  and  hide. 

But  tliis  was  not  to  be  borne  long.  I  had  no  spy 
to  send  out,  and  all  I  could  do  was  to  get  to  the  top  of 
the  hill,  and  keep  a  good  look  out.  At  last,  through 
my  glass,  I  could  see  a  group  of  wild  men  join  in  a 
dance  round  their  fire.  As  soon  a  they  had  left,  I  took 
two  guns,  and  slung  a  sword  on  my  side ;  then  with  all 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  43 

speed,  I  set  off  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  once  more  to  have 
a  good  ^dew. 

This  time  I  made  up  my  mind  to  go  up  to  the  men, 
but  not  with  a  view  to  kill  them,  for  I  felt  that  it  would 
be  wrong  to  do  so.  With  such  a  load  of  arms,  it  took 
me  two  hours  to  reach  the  spot  where  the  fire  was ;  and 
by  the  time  I  got  there,  the  men  had  all  gone ;  but  I 
saw  them  in  four  boats  out  at  sea. 

Down  on  the  shore,  there  was  a  proof  of  what  the 
work  of  these  men  had  been.  The  signs  of  their  feast 
made  me  sick  at  heart,  and  I  shut  my  eyes.  I  durst 
not  fire  my  gun  when  I  went  out  for  food  on  that  side 
the  isle,  lest  there  should  be  some  of  the  men  left,  who 
might  hear  it,  and  so  find  me  out.  This  state  of  things 
went  on  for  a  year  and  three  months,  and  for  all  that 
time  I  saw  no  more  men. 

On  the  twelfth  of  May,  a  great  storm  of  wind  blew 
all  day  and  night.  As  it  was  dark,  I  sat  in  my  house; 
and  in  the  midst  of  the  gale,  I  heard  a  gun  fire !  My 
guess  was  that  it  must  have  been  from  some  ship  cast 
on  shore  by  the  storm.  So  I  set  a  light  to  some  wood 
on  top  of  the  hill,  that  those  in  the  ship,  if  ship  it  should 
be,  might  know  that  some  one  was  there  to  aid  them. 
I  then  heard  two  more  guns  fire.  When  it  was  light,  I 
went  to  the  South  side  of  the  isle,  and  there  lay  the 
wreck  of  a  ship,  cast  on  the  rocks  in  the  night  by  the 
storm.  She  was  too  far  off  for  me  to  see  if  there  were 
men  on  board. 


44  ROBIN  SONCRUSOE. 

Words  could  not  tell  how  much  I  did  long  to  bring 
but  one  of  the  ship's  crew  to  the  shore !  So  strong 
was  my  wish  to  save  the  life  of  those  on  board,  that  I 
could  have  laid  down  my  own  life  to  do  so.  There  are 
some  springs  in  the  heart  which,  when  hope  stirs  them, 
drive  the  soul  on  with  such  a  force,  tliat  to  lose  all 
chance  of  the  thing  one  hopes  for,  would  seem  to  make 
one  mad ;  and  thus  was  it  with  me. 

Now,  I  thought,  was  the  time  to  use  my  boat ;  so  I 
set  to  work  at  once  to  fit  it  out.  I  took  on  board  some 
rum  (of  which  I  still  had  a  good  deal  left),  some  diy 
grapes,  a  bag  of  rice,  some  goat's  milk,  and  cheese,  and 
then  put  out  to  sea.  A  dread  came  on  me  at  the  thought 
of  the  risk  I  had  run  on  the  same  rocks ;  but  my  heart 
did  not  quite  fail  me,  though  I  knew  that,  as  my  boat 
was  small,  if  a  gale  of  wind  should  spring  up,  all  would 
be  lost.  Then  I  found  that  I  must  go  back  to  the  shore 
till  the  tide  should  turn,  and  the  ebb  come  on. 

I  made  up  my  mind  to  go  out  the  next  day  with  the 
high  tide,  so  I  slept  that  night  in  my  boat.  At  dawn  I 
set  out  to  sea,  and  in  less  than  two  hours  I  came  up  to 
the  wreck.  What  a  scene  was  there!  The  ship  had 
struck  on  two  rocks.  The  stern  was  torn  by  the  force 
of  the  waves,  the  masts  were  swept  oflT,  ropes  and  chains 
lay  strewn  on  the  deck,  and  all  was  wrapt  in  gloom. 
As  I  came  up  to  the  wreck,  a  dog  swam  to  me  with  a 
yelp  and  a  whine.  I  took  him  on  board  my  boat,  and 
when  I  gave  hun  some  bread,  he  ate  it  like  a  wolf,  and 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  45 

as  to  drink,  he  would  have  burst,  if  I  had  let  him  take 
his  fill  of  it. 

I  went  to  the  cook's  room,  where  I  found  two  men, 
but  they  were  both  dead.  The  tongue  was  mute,  the 
ear  was  deaf,  the  eye  was  shut,  and  the  lip  was  stiff; 
still  the  sad  tale  was  told,  for  each  had  his  arm  round 
his  friend's  neck,  and  so  they  must  have  sat  to  wait  for 
death.  What  a  change  had  come  on  the  scene,  once 
so  wild  with  the  lash  of  the  waves  and  the  roar  of  the 
wind !  All  was  calm  now — death  had  done  its  work, 
and  all  had  felt  its  stroke,  save  the  dog,  and  he  was  the 
one  thing  that  still  had  life. 

I  thought  the  ship  must  have  come  from  Spain,  and 
there  was  much  gold  on  board.  I  took  some  of  the 
chests  and  put  them  in  my  boat,  but  did  not  wait  to 
see  what  they  held,  and  with  this  spoil,  and  three  casks 
of  rum,  I  came  back. 

I  found  all  things  at  home  just  as  I  had  left  them, 
my  goats,  my  cats,  and  my  bird.  The  scene  in  the 
cook's  room  was  in  my  mind  day  and  night,  and  to 
cheer  me  up  I  drank  some  of  the  rum.  I  then  set  to 
work  to  bring  my  freight  from  the  shore,  where  I  had 
left  it.  In  the  chests  were  two  great  bags  of  gold,  and 
some  bars  of  the  same,  and  near  these  lay  three  small 
flasks  and  three  bags  of  shot,  which  were  a  great  prize. 

From  this  time,  all  went  well  with  me  for  two  years ; 
but  it  was  not  to  last.  One  day,  as  I  stood  on  the  hill, 
I  saw  six  boats  on  the  shore !     What  could  this  mean  ? 


.46  ROBINSON    CRUf^OE. 

Where  were  the  men  who  liad  l3roiight  them  ?  And 
what  had  they  come  for  ?  I  saw  through  my  glass  that 
there  were  a  score  and  a  half,  at  least,  on  the  east  side 
of  the  isle.  They  had  meat  on  the  fire,  round  which  I  ■ 
could  see  them  dancet  They  then  took  a  man  from 
one  of  the  boats,  who  was  bound  hand  and  foot ;  but 
when  they  came  to  loose  his  bonds,  he  set  off  as  fast 
as  his  feet  would  take  him,  and  in  a  staight  fine  to 
my  house. 

To  tell  the  truth,  when  I  saw  all  the  rest  of  the  men 
run  to  catch  him,  my  hah  stood  on  end  with  fright.  In 
the  creek,  he  swam  like  a  fish,  and  the  plunge  which  he 
took  brought  him  through  it  in  a  few  strokes.  All  the 
men  now  gave  up  the  chase  but  two,  and  they  swam 
through  the  creek,  but  by  no  means  so  fast  as  the  'slave 
had  done.  JN^ow,  I  thought,  was  the  time  for  me  to 
help  the  poor  man,  and  my  heart  told  me  it  would  be 
right  to  do  so.  I  ran  down  my  steps  with  my  two  guns, 
and  went  with  all  speed  up  the  hill,  and  then  down  by 
a  short  cut  to  meet  them. 

I  gave  a  sign  to  the  poor  slave  to  come  to  me,  and 
at  the  same  time  went  up  to  meet  the  two  men,  who 
were  in  chase  of  him.  I  made  a  rush  at  the  first  of 
these,  to  knock  him  down  with  the  stock  of  my  gun,, 
and  he  fell.  I  saw  the  one  who  was  left,  aim  at  me 
with  his  bow,  so,  to  save  my  life,  I  shot  him  dead. 

The  smoke  and  noise  from  my  gun,  gave  the  poor 
slave  who  had  been  bound,  such  a  shock,  that  he  stood 


ROBIN  riON    CRUSOE  47 

still  on  the  spot,  as  if  he  had  been  in  a  trance.  I  gave 
a  loud  shout  for  him  to  come  to  me,  and  I  took  care  to 
show  him  that  I  was  a  friend,  and  made  all  the  signs  I 
could  think  of  to  coax  him  up  to  me.  At  length  he 
came,  knelt  down  to  kiss  the  ground,  and  then  took 
hold  of  my  foot,  and  set  it  on  his  head.  All  this  meant 
that  he  was  my  slave ;  and  I  bade  him  rise,  and  made 
much  of  him. 

But  there  was  more  work  to  be  done  yet;  for  the 
man  who  had  had  the  blow  from  my  gun  was  not  dead. 
I  made  a  sign  for  my  slave  (as  I  shall  now  call  him)  to 
look  at  him.  At  this  he  spoke  to  me,  and  though  I 
could  not  make  out  what  he  said,  yet  it  gave  me  a 
shock  of  joy ;  for  it  was  the  first  sound  of  a  man's 
voice  that  I  had  heard,  for  all  the  years  I  had  been  on 
the  isle. 

The  man  whom  I  had  struck  with  the  stock  of  my 
gun,  sat  up ;  and  my  slave,  who  was  in  great  fear  of 
him,  made  signs  for  me  to  lend  him  my  sword,  which 
hung  in  a  belt  at  my  side.  With  this  he  ran  up  to  the 
man,  and  with  one  strake  cut  off  his  head.  When  he 
had  done  this,  he  brought  me  back  my  sword  with  a 
laugh,  and  put  it  down  in  front  of  me.  I  did  not  like 
to  see  the  glee  with  which  he  did  it,  and  I  did  not  feel 
that  my  own  hfe  was  quite  safe  with  such  a  man. 

He,  in  his  turn,  could  but  hft  up  his  large  bro^vn 
hands  with  awe,  to  think  that  I  had  put  his  foe  to  death, 
while  I  stood  so  far  from  him.     But  as  to  the  sword, 


48  ROBINSONCRUSOE. 

he  and  the  rest  of  his  tribe  made  use  of  swords  of  wood^ 
and  this  was  why  he  knew  so  well  how  to  wield  mine. 
He  made  signs  to  me  to  let  him  go  and  see  the  man 
who  had  been  shot;  and  he  gave  him  a  turn  round, 
first  on  this  side,  then  on  that ;  and  when  he  saw  the 
wound  made  in  his  breast  by  the  shot,  he  stood  quite 
still  once  more,  as  if  he  had  lost  his  wits.  I  made  signs 
for  him  to  come  back,  for  my  fears  told  me  that  the 
rest  of  the  men  might  come  in  search  of  their  friends. 

I  did  not  like  to  take  my  slave  to  my  house,  nor  to 
my  cave ;  so  I  tlu^ew  down  some  straw  from  the  rice 
plant  for  him  to  sleep  on,  and  gave  him  some  bread  and 
a  bunch  of  dry  grapes  to  eat.  He  was  a  fine  man,  with 
straight  strong  limbs,  tall,  and  young.  His  hair  was 
thick,  like  wool,  and  black.  His  head  was  large  and 
high ;  and  he  had  bright  black  eyes.  He  was  of  a  dark 
brown  hue ;  his  face  was  round,  and  his  nose  small,  but 
not  flat;  he  had  a  good  mouth  with  thin  lips,  with 
which  he  could  give  a  soft  smile ;  and  his  teeth  were 
as  white  as  snow. 

I  had  been  to  milk  my  goats  in  the  field  close  by, 
and  when  he  saw  me,  he  ran  to  me,  and  lay  down  on 
the  ground  to  show  me  his  thanks.  He  then  put  his 
head  on  the  ground,  and  set  my  foot  on  his  head,  as  he 
had  done  at  first.  He  took  all  the  means  he  could 
think  of,  to  let  me  know  that  he  would  serve  me  all 
his  hfe;  and  I  gave  a  sign  to  show  that  I  thought 
well  of  him. 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  49 

The  next  thing  was  to  think  of  some  name  to  call 
him  by.  I  chose  that  of  the  sixth  day  of  the  week 
(Friday),  as  he  came  to  me  on  that  day.  I  took  care 
not  to  lose  sight  of  him  all  that  night,  and  when  the 
sun  rose,  I  made  signs  for  him  to  come  to  me,  that  I 
might  give  him  some  clothes,  for  he  wore  none.  We 
then  went  up  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  to  look  out  for  the 
men ;  but  as  we  could  not  see  them,  or  their  boats,  it 
was  clear  that  they  had  left  the  isle. 

My  slave  has  since  told  me  that  they  had  had  a  great 
fight  wdtli  the  tribe  that  dwelt  next  to  them ;  and  that 
all  those  men  Avhoni  each  side  took  in  war  were  their 
own  by  right.  My  slave's  foes  had  four  who  fell  to 
their  share,  of  whom  he  was  one. 

I  now  set  to  work  to  make  my  man  a  cap  of  hare's 
skin,  and  gave  him  a  goat's  skin  to  wear  round  his 
waist.  It  was  a  great  source  of  pride  to  him,  to  find 
that  his  clothes  were  as  good  as  my  own. 

At  night,  I  kept  my  guns,  sword,  and  bow  close  -to 
my  side;  but  there  was  no  need  for  this,  as  my  slave 
was,  in  sooth,  most  true  to  me.  He  did  all  that  he  was 
set  to  do,  with  his  whole  heart  in  the  work ;  and  I  knew 
that  he  would  lay  down  his  life  to  save  mine.  What 
could  a  man  do  more  than  that  ?  And  oh,  the  joy  to 
have  liini  here  to  cheer  me  in  this  lone  isle ! 

I  did  my  best  to  teach  him,  so  like  a  child  as  he  was, 
to  do  and  feel  all  that  was  right.  I  found  him  apt,  and 
full  of  fun ;  and  he  took  great  pains  to  learn  all  that  I 


50  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

could  tell  liim.  Our  lives  ran  on  in  a  calm,  smooth 
way ;  and,  but  for  the  vile  feasts  which  were  held  on  the 
shores,  I  felt  no  wish  to  leave  the  isle. 

As  my  slave  had  by  no  means  lost  his  zest  for  these 
meals,  it  struck  me  that  the  best  way  to  cure  him,  was 
to  let  him  taste  the  flesh  of  beasts ;  so  I  took  him  with 
me  one  day  to  the  wood  for  some  sport.  I  saw  a  she- 
goat,  in  the  shade,  with  her  two  kids.  I  caught  Friday 
by  the  arm,  and  made  signs  to  him  not  to  stir,  and  then 
shot  one  of  the  kids;  but  the  noise  of  the  gun  gave 
the  poor  man  a  great  shock.  He  did  not  see  the  kid, 
nor  did  he  know  that  it  was  dead.  He  tore  his  dress 
off  his  breast  to  feel  if  there  was  a  wound  there ;  then 
lie  knelt  down  to  me,  and  took  hold  of  my  knees  to 
pray  of  me  not  to  kill  him. 

To  show  poor  Friday  that  his  life  was  quite  safe,  I 
led  him  by  the  hand,  and  told  him  to  fetch  the  kid.  By 
and  by,  I  saw  a  hawk  in  a  tree,  so  I  bade  him  look  at 
the  gun,  the  hawk,  and  the  ground;  and  then  I  shot 
the  bird.  But  my  poor  slave  gave  still  more  signs  of 
fear  this  time,  than  he  did  at  first :  for  he  shook  from 
head  to  foot.  He  must  have  thought  that  some  fiend 
of  death  dwelt  in  the  gun,  and  I  think  that  he  would 
have  knelt  down  to  it,  as  well  as  to  me ;  but  he  would 
not  so  much  as  touch  the  gun  for  some  time,  though  he 
would  speak  to  it  when  he  thought  I  was  not  near. 
Once  he  told  me  that  what  he  said  to  it  was  to  ask  it 
not  to  kill  him. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  51 

I  brought  home  the  bird,  and  made  broth  of  it.  Fri- 
day was  much  struck  to  see  me  eat  salt  with  it,  and 
made  a  wiy  face ;  but  I,  in  my  turn,  took  some  that 
had  no  salt  with  it,  and  I  made  a  wry  face  at  that.  The 
next  day  I  gave  him  a  piece  of  kid's  flesh,  which  I  had 
hung  by  a  string  in  front  of  the  fire  to  roast.  My  plan 
was  to  put  two  poles,  one  on  each  side  of  the  fire,  and 
a  stick  on  the  top  of  them  to  hold  the  string.  When 
my  slave  came  to  taste  the  flesh,  he  took  the  best  means 
to  let  me  know  how  good  he  thought  it. 

The  next  day  I  set  him  to  beat  out  and  sift  some 
corn.  I  let  him  see  me  make  the  bread,  and  he  soon 
did  all  the  work.  I  felt  quite  a  love  for  his  true,  warm 
heart,  and  he  soon  learnt  to  talk  to  me.  One  day  I 
said,  ^'Do  the  men  of  your  tribe  wui  in  fight?"  He 
told  me,  Tvith  a  smile,  that  they  did.  "  Wefl,  then,"  said 
I,  ''  How  came  they  to  let  their  foes  take  you  ?" 

"  They  run  one,  two,  three,  and  make  go  in  the  boat 
that  time." 

^'Well,  and  what  do  the  men  do  with  those  they 
take?" 

"  Eat  them  aU  up." 

This  was  not  good  news  for  me,  but  I  went  on,  and 
said,  '''  Where  do  they  take  them  ?  " 

''  Go  to  next  place  where  they  thmk." 

"  Do  they  come  here  ?  " 

^^  Yes,  yes,  they  come  here,  come  else  place  too." 

^'  Have  you  been  here  with  them  twice  ?  " 


62  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

'^  Yes,  come  there." 

He  meant  the  North  West  side  of  tlie  isle,  so  to  this 
spot  I  took  liim  the  next  day.  He  knew  the  place,  and 
told  me  he  was  there  once  with  a  score  of  men.  Ta 
let  me  know  this,  he  put  a  score  of  stones  all  of  a  row^ 
and  made  me  count  them. 

"Are  not  the  boats  lost  on  your  shore  now  and 
then  ? "  He  said  that  there  was  no  fear,  and  that  no 
boats  were  lost.  He  told  me  that  up  a  great  way  by 
the  moon — that  is  where  the  moon  then  came  up — there 
dwelt  a  tribe  of  white  men  like  me,  with  beards.  I  felt 
sure  that  they  must  have  come  from  Spain,  to  work  the 
gold  mhies.  I  put  this  to  him :  "  Could  T  go  from  this 
isle  and  join  those  men  ?  " 

"  Yes,  yes,  you  may  go  in  two  boats." 

It  was  hard  to  see  how  one  man  could  go  in  two 
boats,  but  what  he  meant  was,  a  ))oat  twice  as  large 
as  my  own. 

One  day  I  said  to  my  slave,  "  Do  you  know  who 
made  you  ?  " 

But  he  could  not  tell  at  all  what  these  words  meant. 
So  I  said,  "  Do  you  know  who  made  the  sea,  the  groimd 
we  tread  on,  the  hills,  and  woods?"  He  said  it  was 
Beek,  whose  home  was  a  great  way  oflP,  and  that  he 
was  so  old  that  the  sea  and  the  land  were  not  so 
old  as  he. 

"  If  this  old  man  has  made  all  things,  why  do  not 
all  things  bow  down  to  him  ?  " 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  53 

My  slave  gave  a  grave  look,  and  said,  '^  All  things 
say  '  0 '  to  him." 

''Where  do  the  men  in  your  land  go  when  they 
die?" 

''  All  go  to  Beek." 

I  then  held  my  hand  up  to  the  sky  to  point  to  it,  and 
said,  ''  God  dwells  there.  He  made  the  world,  and  all 
things  in  it.  The  moon  and  the  stars  are  the  work  of 
his  hand.  God  sends  the  wind  and  the  rain  on  the 
earth,  and  the  streams  that  flow :  He  hides  the  face  of 
the  sky  with  clouds,  makes  the  grass  to  grow  for  the 
beasts  of  the  field,  and  herbs  for  the  use  of  man.  God's 
love  knows  no  end.  When  we  pray.  He  draws  near 
to  us  and  hears  us." 

It  was  a  real  joy  to  my  poor  slave  to  hear  me  talk 
of  these  things.  He  sat  still  for  a  long  time,  then  gave 
a  sigh,  and  told  me  that  he  would  say  ''  0 "  to  Seek 
no  more,  for  he  was  but  a  short  way  off,  and  yet  could 
not  hear,  till  men  went  up  the  hill  to  speak  to  him. 

'' Did  you  go  up  the  hill  to  speak  to  him?"  said  I. 

''  j^o,  Okes  go  up  to  Beek,  not  young  mans." 

''  What  do  Okes  say  to  him  ?  " 

''  They  say  '  0.^ " 

Now  that  I  brought  my  man  Friday  to  know  that 
Beek  was  not  the  true  God,  such  was  the  sense  he  had 
of  my  worth,  that  I  had  fears  lest  I  should  stand  in  the 
place  of  Beek.  I  did  my  best  to  call  forth  his  faith  in 
Christ,  and  make  it  strong  and  clear,  till  at  last — thanks 


64  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

be  to  the  Lord — I  brought  him  to  the  love  of  Him^ 
Avith  the  whole  grasp  of  his  soul. 

To  please  my  poor  slave,  I  gave  him  a  sketch  of  my 
whole  life ;  I  told  him  where  I  was  bom,  and  where  I 
spent  my  days  when  a  child.  He  was  glad  to  hear 
tales  of  the  land  of  my  birth,  and  of  the  trade  which 
we  keep  up,  in  ships,  with  all  parts  of  the  known  world. 
I  gave  him  a  loiife  and  a  belt,  which  made  him  dance 
with  joy. 

One  day  as  we  stood  on  the  top  of  the  hill  at  the 
east  side  of  the  isle,  I  saw  him  fix  his  eyes  on  the  main 
land,  and  stand  for  a  long  time  to  gaze  at  it;  then 
jump  and  sing,  and  call  out  to  me. 

"  What  do  you  see  ?"  said  I. 

''  Oh  joy !"  said  he,  with  a  fierce  glee  in  his  eyes^ 
"  Oh  glad !     There  see  my  land ! " 

Why  did  he  strain  his  eyes  to  stare  at  this  land,  as 
if  he  had  a  wish  to  be  there  ?  It  put  fears  in  my  mind 
which  made  me  feel  far  less  at  my  ease  with  him. 
Thought  I,  if  he  should  go  back  to  his  home,  he  will 
think  no  more  of  what  I  have  taught  him,  and  done 
for  him.  He  will  be  sure  to  tell  the  rest  of  his  tribe 
all  my  ways,  and  come  back  with,  it  may  be,  scores  of 
them,  and  kill  me,  and  then  dance  round  me,  as  they 
did  round  the  men,  the  last  time  they  came  on  my  isle. 

But  these  were  all  false  fears,  though  they  found  a 
place  in  my  mind  a  long  while ;  and  I  was  not  so  kind 
to  him  now  as  I  had  been.     From  this  time  I  made  it 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  55. 

a  rule,  day  by  day,  to  find  out  if  there  were  grounds 
for  my  fears  or  not.  I  said,  '^Do  you  not  wish  to  be 
once  more  in  your  own  land  ?  " 

'^Yes!  I  be  much  0  glad  to  be  at  my  own 
land." 

^'  What  would  you  do  there  ?  Would  you  turn  wild, 
and  be  as  you  were  ?  " 

^'  ISTo,  no,  I  would  tell  them  to  be  good,  tell  them  eat 
bread,  corn,  milk,  no  eat  man  more ! " 

^'  Why,  they  would  kill  you ! " 

"  No,  no,  they  no  kill ;  they  love  learn." 

He  then  told  me  that  some  white  men,  who  had 
come  on  their  shores  in  a  boat,  had  taught  them  a 
great  deal. 

'^  Then  will  you  go  back  to  your  land  with  me  ?  " 

He  said  he  could  not  swim  so  far,  so  I  told  him  he 
should  help  me  to  build  a  boat  to  go  in.  Then  he  said,, 
^'  If  you  go,  I  go." 

"  I  go  ?  why  they  would  eat  me ! " 

"  No,  me  make  them  much  love  you." 

Then  he  told  me  as  well  as  he  could,  how  kind  they 
had  been  to  some  white  men.  I  brought  out  the  large 
boat  to  hear  what  he  thought  of  it,  but  he  said  it  was 
too  small.  We  then  went  to  look  at  the  old  ship's  boat, 
which,  as  it  had  been  in  the  sun  for  years,  was  not  at 
all  in  a  sound  state.  The  poor  man  made  sure  that  it 
would  do.  But  how  were  we  to  know  this  ?  I  told 
him  we  should  build  a  boat  as  large  as  that,  and  that 


66  R  0  B  1  N  .S  O  N    C  R  U  S  O  E  . 

he  should  go  home  m  it.  He  spoke  not  a  word,  but 
was  grave  and  sad. 

''What  ails  you?"  said  I. 

''  Why,  you  grieve  mad  with  your  man  ?  " 

''  What  do  you  mean  ?     I  am  not  cross  with  you." 

"  'No  cross  ?  no  cross  Avith  me  ?  AVhy  send  your  man 
home  to  his  own  land,  then  ?  " 

''  Did  you  not  tell  me  you  would  like  to  go  back  ?  " 

''  Yes,  yes,  we  both  there ;  no  wish  self  there,  if  you 
not  there ! " 

''  And  what  should  I  do  there  ?  " 

''  You  do  great  deal  much  good !  you  teach  wild  men 
be  good  men;  you  tell  them  know  God,  pray  God, 
and  lead  new  life." 

We  soon  set  to  work  to  make  a  boat  that  would  take 
us  both.  The  first  thing  was  to  look  out  for  some  large 
trees  that  grew  near  the  shore,  so  that  we  could  launch 
our  boat  when  it  was  made.  My  slave's  plan  was  to 
burn  the  wood  to  make  it  the  right  shape ;  but  as  mine 
was  to  hew  it,  I  set  him  to  work  with  my  tools ;  and  in 
two  months'  time  we  had  made  a  good  strong  boat; 
but  it  took  a  long  while  to  get  her  down  to  the  shore. 

Friday  had  the  whole  charge  of  her ;  and,  large  as 
she  was,  he  made  her  move  with  ease,  and  said,  ''  he 
thought  she  go  there  well,  though  great  blow  wind ! " 
He  did  not  know  that  I  meant  to  make  a  mast  and 
sail.  I  cut  down  a.  young  fir  tree  for  the  mast,  and  then 
I  set  to  work  at  the  sail.     It  made  me  laugh  to  see  my 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  57 

man  stand  and  stare,  when  he  came  to  watch  me  sail 
the  boat.  But  he  soon  gave  a  jump,  a  laugh,  and  a 
clap  of  the  hands  when  he  saw  the  sail  jibe  and  fall, 
first  on  this  side,  then  on  that. 

The  next  thing  to  do  was  to  stow  our  boat  up  in  the 
creek,  where  we  dug  a  small  dock ;  and  when  the  tide 
was  low,  we  made  a  dam,  to  keep  out  the  sea.  The 
time  of  year  had  now  come  for  us  to  set  sail,  so  we  got 
out  all  our  stores,  to  put  them  in  the  boat. 

One  day  I  sent  Friday  to  the  shore,  to  get  a  sort  of 
herb  that  grew  there.  I  soon  heard  him  cry  out  to 
me,  "'  0  grief!  0  bad!  0  bad!  0  out  there  boats,  one, 
two,  three!"  '^Keep  a  stout  heart,"  said  I,  to  cheer 
him.  The  poor  man  shook  with  fear;  for  he  thought 
that  the  men  who  brought  him  here,  had  now  come 
back  to  kill  him. 

^^Can  you  fight?"  said  I. 

^^Me  shoot;  but  me  saw  three  boats;  one,  two, 
three ! " 

"Have  no  fear;  those  that  we  do  not  kill,  will  be 
sure  to  take  fright  at  the  sound  of  our  guns.  Now  will 
you  stand  by  me,  and  do  just  as  you  are  bid?" 

"  Me  die  when  you  bid  die." 

I  gave  him  a  good  draught  of  rum ;  and  when  he 
had  drunk  this,  he  took  up  an  axe  and  two  guns,  each 
of  which  had  a  charge  of  swan  shot.  I  took  two  guns 
as  well,  and  put  large  shot  in  them,  and  then  hung  my 
great  sword  by  my  side.     From  tlie  top  of  the  hill,  I 


68  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

saw  with  the  help  of  my  glass,  that  the  l)Oats  had  each 
brought  eight  men,  and  one  slave.  They  had  come  on 
shore  near  the  creek,  where  a  gTove  of  young  trees 
grew  close  down  to  the  sea. 

They  had  with  them  three  slaves,  bound  hand  and 
foot,  and  you  who  read  this,  may  guess  what  they  were 
brought  here  for.  I  felt  that  I  must  try  and  save  them 
from  so  hard  a  fate,  and  that  to  do  this,  I  should  have 
to  put  some  of  their  foes  to  death.  So  we  set  forth 
on  our  way.  I  gave  Friday  strict  charge  to  keep  close 
to  me,  and  not  to  fire  till  I  told  him  to  do  so. 

We  went  full  a  mile  out  of  our  way,  that  we  might 
get  round  to  the  wood  to  hide  there.  But  we  had  not 
gone  far,  when  my  old  qualms  came  back  to  me,  and 
I  thought,  ^^Is  it  for  me  to  dip  my  hands  in  man's 
blood  ?  Wliy  should  I  kill  those  who  have  done  me 
no  harm,  and  mean  not  to  hurt  me  ?  Xay,  who  do  not 
so  much  as  know  that  they  are  in  the  wrong,  when 
they  hold  these  feasts.  Are  not  their  ways  a  sign  that 
God  has  left  them  (with  the  rest  of  their  tribe)  to  their 
own  dull  hearts?  God  did  not  call  me  to  be  a  judge 
for  Ilim.  He  who  said,  ^  Thou  shalt  not  kill,'  said  it 
for  me,  as  well  as  the  rest  of  the  world." 

A  throng  of  thoughts  hke  these  would  rush  on  my 
mind,  as  if  to  warn  me  to  pause,  till  I  felt  sure  that 
there  was  more  to  call  me  to  the  work  than  I  then 
knew  of  I  took  my  stand  in  the  wood,  to  watch  the 
men  at  their  feast,  and  then  crept  on,  with  Friday  close 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  59 

at  my  heels.  Thus  we  went  till  we  came  to  the 
skirts  of  the  wood.  Then  I  said  to  Friday,  ''  Go  up 
to  the  top  of  that  tree,  and  bring  me  word  if  you  can 
see  the  men.'' 

He  went,  and  quick  as  thought,  came  l^ack  to  say 
that  they  were  all  round  the  fire,  and  that  the  man  who 
was  bound  on  the  sand  would  be  the  next  they  would 
kill.  But  when  he  told  me  that  it  was  a  white  man,  one 
of  my  own  race,  I  felt  the  blood  boil  in  my  veins.  Two 
of  the  gang  had  gone  to  loose  the  white  man  from  his 
bonds ;  so  now  was  the  time  to  fire. 

At  the  sound  of  our  guns,  we  saw  all  the  men  jump 
up  from  the  ground  where  they  sat.  It  must  have  been 
the  first  gun  they  had  heard  m  their  fives.  They  knew 
not  which  way  to  look.  I  now  threw  down  my  piece^ 
and  took  up  a  smaU  gun ;  Friday  did  the  same ;  and  I 
gave  him  the  word  to  fire !  The  men  ran  right  and 
left,  with  yells  and  screams. 

I  now  made  a  rush  out  of  the  wood,  that  they  might 
see  me,  with  my  man  Friday  at  my  heels,  of  course. 
We  gave  a  loud  shout,  and  ran  up  to  the  white  man  as 
fast  as  we  could.  There  he  lay  on  the  hot  sand.  I  cut 
the  flag,  or  rush,  by  which  he  was  bound,  but  he  was 
too  weak  to  stand  or  speak,  so  I  gave  him  some  rum. 
He  let  me  know  by  all  the  signs  that  he  could  think 
of,  how  much  he  stood  in  my  debt  for  all  that  I  had 
done  for  him. 

I  said,  ^^  We  wiU  talk  of  that  bye  and  bye ;  but  now 


60  ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  ♦ 

we  must  do  what  we  can  to  save  our  lives."  Friday, 
who  Avas  free  to  go  where  he  chose,  flew  here  and  there, 
and  put  aU  the  men  to  the  rout.  They  fled  in  fuU  haste 
to  their  boats,  and  were  soon  out  at  sea ;  and  so  we 
got  rid  of  our  foes  at  last. 

The  man  whom  we  had  found  on  the  sand  told  us 
that  his  name  was  Carl,  and  that  he  came  from  Spain. 
But  there  was  one  more  man  to  claim  our  care ;  for  the 
black  men  had  left  a  small  boat  on  the  sands,  and  in 
this  I  saw  a  poor  wretch  who  lay  half  dead.  He  could 
not  so  much  as  look  up,  so  tight  was  he  bound,  neck 
and  heels.  When  I  cut  the  bonds  from  him  he  gave  a 
deep  groan,  for  he  thought  that  aU  this  was  but  to  lead 
him  out  to  die. 

Friday  then  came  up,  and  I  bade  him  speak  to  the 
old  man  in  his  own  tongue,  and  tell  him  that  he  was  free. 
This  good  news  gave  him  strength,  and  he  sat  up  in  the 
boat.  But  when  Friday  came  to  hear  him  talk,  and  to 
look  him  in  the  face,  it  brought  the  tears  to  my  eyes  to 
see  liim  kiss  and  hug  the  poor  old  man,  and  dance  round 
him  with  joy,  then  weep,  wring  his  hands,  and  beat  his 
own  face  and  head,  and  then  laugh  once  more,  sing,  and 
leap.  For  a  long  time  he  could  not  speak  to  me,  so  as 
to  let  me  know  what  aU  this  meant.  But  at  length 
he  told  me  that  he  was  the  son  of  this  poor  old  man, 
and  that  his  name  was  Jaf 

It  would  be  a  hard  task  for  me  to  tefl  of  all  the 
quaint  signs  Friday  made  to  show  his  joy.     He  went  in 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  61 

and  out  of  the  boat  five  or  six  times,  sat  down  by  old 
Jaf,  and  held  the  poor  old  man's  head  close  to  his 
breast  to  warm  it ;  then  he  set  to  work  to  rub  his  arms 
and  feet,  which  were  cold  and  stiff  from  the  bonds.  I 
told  Friday  to  give  him  some  rum  and  bread ;  but  he 
said,  ^'  None !  Bad  dog  eat  all  up  self"  He  then  ran 
off*  straight  to  the  house,  and  took  no  heed  of  my  calls, 
but  went  as  swift  as  a  deer. 

In  an  hour's  time,  he  came  back  with  a  jug  in  his 
hand.  The  good  soul  had  gone  all  the  way  to  the 
house,  that  Jaf  might  have  a  fresh  draught  from  my 
well ;  and  with  it  he  brought  two  cakes,  one  of  which 
I  bade  him  take  to  Carl,  who  lay  in  the  shade  of  a  tree. 
His  hmbs  were  stiff  and  cold,  and  he  was  too  weak 
to  say  a  word. 

I  set  my  man  to  rub  his  feet  with  rum,  and  while  he 
did  so,  I  saw  Friday  turn  his  head  round  from  time  to 
time,  to  steal  a  look  at  the  old  man.  Then  we  brought 
Carl  and  Jaf  home  from  the  boat  on  our  backs,  as 
they  could  not  walk.  The  door  of  my  house  was  at 
the  top,  and  the  poor  sick  men  could  not  climb  the 
steps  by  which  I  got  in,  so  we  made  for  them  a  tent 
of  old  sails. 

I  was  now  a  king  of  these  three  men,  as  well  as  Lord 
of  the  isle  ;  and  I  felt  proud  to  say,  ^'  They  all  owe  their 
lives  to  their  king,  and  would  lay  them  down  for  him 
if  he  bade  them  do  so."  But  I  did  not  think  that  my 
reign  was  so  soon  to  come  to  an  end.     The  next  thing 


62  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

for  US  to  do  was  to  j^ive  Carl  and  Jaf  some  food,  and 
to  kill  and  roast  a  kid,  to  which  avc  all  four  sat  down, 
and  I  did  my  best  to  cheer  them. 

Carl  in  a  few  days  grew  quite  strong,  and  I  set  him 
to  work  to  dig  some  land  for  seed ;  for  it  was  clear  we 
should  want  more  corn  now  that  we  had  two  more 
mouths  to  fill.  So  we  put  in  the  ground  all  the  stock 
of  grain  I  had,  and  thus  we  all  four  had  as  nmch  work 
as  we  could  do  for  some  time.  When  the  crop  grew^ 
and  was  ripe,  we  found  we  had  a  good  store  of  grain. 

We  made  a  plan  that  Carl  and  Jaf  should  go  back 
to  the  main  land,  to  try  if  they  could  get  some  of  the 
white  men  who  had  been  cast  on  shore  there,  to  come 
and  live  with  us ;  so  they  got  out  the  boat,  and  took 
with  them  two  guns  and  food  for  eight  days.  They 
were  to  come  back  in  a  week's  time,  and  I  bade  them 
hang  out  a  sign  when  tliey  came  in  sight,  so  that  we 
might  know  who  they  were. 

One  day,  Friday  ran  up  to  me  in  great  glee,  and 
said,  ^^  They  are  back !  They  are  back ! "  A  mile  from 
shore,  there  was  a  boat  witd  a  sail,  which  stood  in  for 
the  land;  but  I  knew  it  could  not  be  the  one  wliich 
our  two  friends  had  gone  out  in,  for  it  was  on  the  wrong 
side  of  the  isle  for  that.  I  saw  tuo,  through  my  glass, 
a  ship  out  at  sea.  There  were  twelve  men  in  the  boat, 
three  of  whom  were  bound  in  chains,  and  four  had 
fire  arms. 

Bye  and  bye,  I  saw  one  of  the  men  raise  his  sword 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  6a 

to  those  who  were  m  chains,  and  I  felt  sure  that  all  was 
not  right.  Then  I  saw  that  the  three  men  who  had 
been  bound  were  set  free ;  and  when  they  had  come 
on  shore  they  lay  on  the  ground,  in  the  shade  of  a 
tree.  I  was  soon  at  their  side,  for  their  looks,  so  sad 
and  worn,  brought  to  my  mind  the  first  few  hours  I 
had  spent  m  this  wild  spot,  where  all  to  me  was  wrapt 
in  gloom, 

I  went  up  to  these  men,  and  said : 

"Who  are  you.  Sirs?" 

They  gave  a  start  at  my  voice,  and  at  my  strange 
dress,  and  made  a  move  as  if  they  would  fly  from  me. 
I  said,  ''  Do  not  fear  me,  for  it  may  be  that  you  have  a 
friend  at  hand,  though  you  do  not  think  it."  "  He  must 
be  sent  from  the  sky  then,"  said  one  of  them  with  a 
grave  look ;  and  he  took  off  his  hat  to  me  at  the  same 
time.  ^^  All  help  is  from  thence,  Sir,"  I  said;  ^'but  what 
can  I  do  to  aid  you  ?  You  look  as  if  you  had  some 
load  of  grief  on  your  breast.  I  saw  one  of  the  men 
lift  his  sword  as  if  to  kill  you." 

The  tears  ran  down  the  poor  man's  face,  as  he  said, 
^'  Is  this  a  god,  or  is  it  but  a  man  ?"  "  Have  no  doubt 
on  that  score.  Sir,"  said  I,  '^  for  a  god  would  not  have 
come  with  a  dress  like  this.  'Noj  do  not  fear — nor  raise 
your  hopes  too  high ;  for  you  see  but  a  man,  yet  one 
who  will  do  all  he  can  to  help  you.  Your  speech 
shows  me  that  you  come  from  the  same  land  as  I  do. 
I  will  do  all  I  can  to  serve  you.   Tell  me  your  case." 


64  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

^^  Our  case.  Sir,  is  too  long  to  tell  you  while  they 
who  would  kill  us  are  so  near.  My  name  is  Paul 
To  be  short,  Sir,  my  crew  have  thrust  me  out  of  my 
ship,  which  you  see  out  there,  and  have  left  me  here  to 
die.  It  was  as  much  as  I  could  do  to  make  them 
sheath  their  swords,  which  you  saw  were  drawn  to  slay 
me.  They  have  set  me  down  in  this  isle  with  these  two 
men,  my  friend  here,  and  the  ship's  mate. " 

^^  Where  have  they  gone  ?  "  said  I. 

"  There,  in  the  w^ood,  close  by.  I  fear  they  may  have 
seen  and  heard  us.  If  they  have,  they  will  be  sure 
to  kill  us  all." 

"  Have  they  fire-arms  ?  " 

"  They  have  four  guns,  one  of  which  is  in  the  boat." 

"  Well  then,  leave  all  to  me ! " 

^' There  are  two  of  the  men,"  said  he,  ^'who  are 
worse  than  the  rest.  All  but  these  I  feel  sure  would 
go  back  to  work  the  ship." 

I  thought  it  was  best  to  speak  out  to  Paul  at  once, 
and  I  said,  ''Now  if  I  save  your  life,  there  are  two 
things  which  you  must  do."  But  he  read  my  tlioughts, 
and  said,  ''If  you  save  my  life,  you  shall  do  as  you 
like  with  me  and  my  ship,  and  take  her  where  you 
please." 

I  saw  that  the  two  men,  in  whose  charge  the  boat 
had  been  left,  had  come  on  shore ;  so  the  first  tiling  I 
did  was  to  send  Friday  to  fetch  fi^om  it  the  oars,  the 
sail,  and  the  gun.     And  now  the  ship  might  be  said  to 


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be  in  our  hands.  When  the  time  came  for  the  men  to 
go  back  to  the  ship,  they  were  in  a  great  rage ;  for,  as 
the  boat  had  now  no  sail  nor  oars,  they  knew  not  how 
to  get  out  to  their  ship. 

We  heard  them  say  that  it  was  a  strange  sort  of 
isle,  for  that  sprites  had  come  to  the  boat,  to  take  oflP 
the  sails  and  oars.  We  could  see  them  run  to  and  fro^ 
with  great  rage ;  then  go  and  sit  in  the  boat  to  rest, 
and  then  come  on  shore  once  more.  When  they  drew 
near  to  us,  Paul  and  Friday  would  fain  have  had  me 
fall  on  them  at  once.  But  my  wish  was  to  spare  them, 
and  kill  as  few  as  I  could.  I  told  two  of  my  men  to 
creep  on  their  hands  and  feet  close  to  the  ground,  so 
that  they  might  not  be  seen,  and  when  they  got  up  to 
the  men,  not  to  fire  till  I  gave  the  word. 

They  had  not  stood  thus  long,  when  three  of  the 
crew  came  up  to  us.  Till  now,  we  had  but  heard  their 
voice,  but  when  they  came  so  near  as  to  be  seen,  Paul 
and  Friday  stood  up  and  shot  at  them.  Two  of  the 
men  fell  dead,  and  they  were  the  worst  of  the  crew, 
and  the  third  ran  off.  At  the  sound  of  the  guns  I  came 
up,  but  it  was  so  dark  that  the  men  could  not  tell  if 
there  were  three  of  us  or  three  score. 

It  fell  out  just  as  I  could  wish,  for  I  heard  the  men 
ask,  "  To  whom  must  we  yield,  and  where  are  they  ?  " 
Friday  told  them  that  Paul  was  there  with  the  king  of 
the  isle,  who  had  brought  with  him  a  crowd  of  men ! 
At  this  one  of  the  crew  said,  ''  If  Paul  will  spare  our 


<66  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

lives,  we  will  yield."  '^Then,"  said  Friday,  ^'you  shall 
tnow  the  king's  will."  Then  Paul  said  to  them,  "  You 
know  my  voice ;  if  you  lay  down  your  arms  the  king 
will  spare  your  lives ! " 

They  fell  on  their  knees  to  beg  the  same  of  me.  I 
took  good  care  that  they  did  not  see  me,  but  I  gave 
them  my  word  that  they  should  all  live,  that  I  should 
take  four  of  them  to  work  the  ship,  and  that  the  rest 
would  be  bound  hand  and  foot,  for  the  good  faith 
of  the  four.  This  was  to  show  them  what  a  stem 
king  I  was. 

Of  course  I  soon  set  them  free,  and  I  put  thom  in  a 
way  to  take  my  place  on  the  isle.  I  told  them  of  all 
my  ways,  taught  them  how  to  mind  the  goats,  how  to 
work  the  farm,  and  make  the  bread.  I  gave  them  a 
house  to  live  in,  fire  arms,  tools,  and  my  two  tame 
cats,  in  fact,  all  but  Poll  and  my  gold. 

As  I  sat  on  the  top  of  the  liill,  Paul  came  up  to  me. 
He  held  out  his  hand  to  point  to  the  ship,  and  with 
much  warmth  took  me  to  his  arms,  and  said,  "My 
dear  friend,  there  is  your  ship !  For  she  is  all  yours, 
and  so  are  we,  and  all  that  is  in  her." 

I  cast  my  eyes  to  the  ship,  wliich  rode  half  a  mile 
off  the  shore,  at  the  mouth  of  the  creek,  and  near  the 
place  where  I  had  brought  my  rafts  to  the  land.  Yes, 
there  she  stood,  the  ship  that  was  to  set  me  free,  and 
to  take  me  where  I  might  choose  to  go.  She  set  her 
sails  to  the  wind,  and  her  flags  threw  out  their  gay 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  67 

stripes  in  the  breeze.  Such  a  sight  was  too  much  for 
me,  and  I  fell  down  faint  with  joy.  Paul  then  took 
out  a  flask  which  he  had  brought  for  me,  and  gave  me 
a  dram,  which  I  drank,  but  for  a  good  while  I  could 
not  speak  to  him. 

Friday  and  Paul  then  went  on  board  the  ship,  and 
Paul  took  charge  of  her  once  more.  We  did  not  start 
that  night,  but  at  noon  the  next  day  I  left  the  isle! 
That  lone  isle,  where  I  had  spent  so  great  a  part  of  my 
life — not  much  less  than  thrice  ten  long  years. 

When  I  came  back  to  the  dear  land  of  my  birth,  all 
was  strange  and  new  to  me.  I  went  to  my  old  home 
at  York,  but  none  of  my  friends  were  there,  and  to 
my  great  grief  I  saw,  on  the  stone  at  their  grave,  the 
sad  tale  of  their  death. 

As  they  had  thought,  of  course,  that  I  was  dead, 
they  had  not  left  me  their  wealth  and  lands,  so  that  I 
stood  much  in  want  of  means,  for  it  was  but  a  small 
sum  that  I  had  brought  with  me  from  the  isle.  But  in 
this  time  of  need,  I  had  the  luck  to  find  my  good  friend 
who  once  took  me  up  at  sea.  He  was  now  grown 
too  old  for  work,  and  had  put  his  son  in  the  ship  in  his 
place.  He  did  not  know  me  at  first,  but  I  was  soon 
brought  to  his  muid  when  I  told  him  who  I  was.  I 
found  from  him  that  the  land  which  I  had  bought  on 
mv  way  to  the  isle  was  now  worth  much. 

As  it  was  a  long  way  off,  I  felt  no  wish  to  go  and 
live  there,  so  I  made  up  my  mind  to  sell  it,  and  in  the 


68  ROBINSON    CBfUSOE. 

course  of  a  few  months,  I  got  for  it  a  sum  so  large  a& 
to  make  me  a  rich  man  all  at  once. 

Weeks,  months,  and  years  went  by ;  I  had  a  farm,  a 
wife,  and  two  sons,  and  was  by  no  means  young ;  but 
still  I  could  not  get  rid  of  a  strong  wish  which  dwelt 
in  my  thoughts  by  day  and  my  dreams  by  night,  and 
that  was  to  set  foot  once  more  in  my  old  isle. 

I  had  now  no  need  to  work  for  food,  or  for  means 
of  life ;  all  I  had  to  do  was  to  teach  my  boys  to  be 
wise  and  good,  to  live  at  my  ease,  and  see  my 
wealth  grow  day  by  day.  Yet  the  wish  to  go  back 
to  my  wild  haunts  clung  round  me  like  a  cloud,  and 
I  could  in  no  way  drive  it  from  me,  so  true  is  it 
that  ^'  what  is  bred  in  the  bone  will  not  come  out  of 
the  flesh." 

At  length  I  lost  my  wife,  which  was  a  great  blow  to 
me,  and  my  home  was  now  so  sad,  that  I  made  up  my 
mind  to  launch  out  once  more  on  the  broad  sea,  and 
go  with  my  man  Friday  to  that  lone  isle  where  dwelt 
all  my  hopes. 

I  took  with  me  as  large  a  store  of  tools,  clothes,  and 
such  like  goods  as  I  had  room  for,  and  men  of  skill  in 
all  kinds  of  trades,  to  live  in  the  isle.  When  we  set 
sail,  we  had  a  fair  wind  for  some  time,  but  one  night 
the  mate,  who  was  at  the  watch,  told  me  he  saw  a  flash 
of  fire,  and  heard  a  gun  go  off".  At  this  we  all  ran  on 
deck,  from  whence  we  saw  a  great  light,  and  as  there 
was  no  land  that  way,  we  loiew  that  it  must  be  some 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  69 

ship  on  fire  at  sea,  which  could  not  be  far  ofi',  for  we 
heard  the  sound  of  the  gun. 

The  wind  was  still  fair,  so  we  made  our  way  for  the 
point  where  we  saw  the  light,  and  in  half  an  hour,  it 
was  but  too  plain  that  a  large  ship  was  on  fire  in  the 
midst  of  the  broad  sea.  I  gave  the  word  to  fire  off 
five  guns,  and  we  then  lay  by,  to  wait  till  break  of  day. 
But  in  the  dead  of  the  night,  the  ship  blew  up  in  the 
air,  the  flames  shot  forth,  and  what  there  was  left  of 
the  ship  sank.  We  hung  out  lights,  and  our  guns  kept 
up  a  fire  all  night  long,  to  let  the  crew  know  that  there 
was  help  at  hand. 

At  eight  o'clock  the  next  day  we  found,  by  the  aid 
of  the  glass,  that  two  of  the  ship's  boats  were  out  at  sea, 
quite  full  of  men.  They  had  seen  us,  and  had  done 
their  best  to  make  us  see  them,  and  in  half  an  hour 
we  came  up  with  them. 

It  would  be  a  hard  task  for  me  to  set  forth  in  words 
the  scene  which  took  place  in  my  ship,  when  the  poor 
French  folk  (for  such  they  were)  came  on  board.  As 
to  grief  and  fear,  these  are  soon  told — sighs,  tears,  and 
groans  make  up  the  sum  of  them — but  such  a  cause 
of  joy  as  this  was,  in  sooth,  too  much  for  them  to  bear, 
weak  and  all  but  dead  as  they  were. 

Some  would  send  up  shouts  of  joy  that  rent  the  sky; 
some  would  cry  and  wring  their  hands  as  if  in  the 
depths  of  grief;  some  would  dance,  laugh,  and  sing; 
not  a  few  were  dumb,  sick,  faint,  in  a  swoon,  or  half 


70  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

mad;  and  two  or  three  were  seen  to  give  thanks 
to  God. 

In  this  strange  group,  •  there  was  a  young  French 
priest  who  did  his  best  to  soothe  those  round  him,  and 
1  saw  him  go  up  to  some  of  the  crew,  and  say  to  them, 
'^  Why  do  you  scream,  and  tear  your  hair,  and  wring 
your  hands,  my  men  ?  Let  your  joy  be  free  and  full, 
give  it  full  range  and  scope,  but  leave  off  this  trick  of 
the  hands,  and  lift  them  up  in  praise ;  let  your  voice 
swell  out,  not  in  screams,  but  in  hymns  of  thanks  to 
God,  who  has  brought  you  out  of  so  great  a  strait,  for 
this  will  add  peace  to  your  joy." 

The  next  day,  they  were  all  m  a  right  frame  of  mind, 
so  I  gave  them  what  stores  I  could  spare,  and  put  them 
on  board  a  ship  that  we  met  with  on  her  way  to 
France,  all  save  five  who,  with  the  priest,  had  a  wish 
to  join  me. 

But  we  had  not  set  sail  long,  when  we  fell  in  with  a 
ship  that  had  been  blown  out  to  sea  by  a  storm,  and 
had  lost  her  masts ;  and,  worse  than  all,  her  crew  had 
not  had  an  ounce  of  meat  or  bread  for  ten  days.  I 
gave  them  all  some  food,  which  they  ate  like  wolves 
in  the  snow,  but  I  thought  it  best  to  check  them,  as  I 
had  fears  that  so  much  all  at  once  would  cause  the 
death  of  some  of  them. 

There  were  a  youth  and  a  young  girl  in  the  sliip  who 
the  mate  said  he  thought  must  be  dead,  but  he  had  not 
had  the  heart  to  go  near  them,  for  the  food  was  all 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  71 

gone.  I  found  that  they  were  faint  for  the  want  of  it,, 
and  as  it  were  in  the  jaws  of  death ;  but  in  a  short  time 
they  both  got  well,  and  as  they  had  no  wish  to  go  back 
to  their  ship,  I  took  them  with  me.  So  now  I  had  eight 
more  on  board  my  ship,  than  I  had  when  I  first  set  out. 

In  three  months  from  the  time  when  I  left  home,  I 
came  in  sight  of  my  isle,  and  I  brought  the  ship  safe 
up  by  the  side  of  the  creek,  which  was  near  my  old 
house. 

I  went  up  to  Friday,  to  ask  if  he  knew  where  he  was. 
He  took  a  look  round  him,  and  soon,  with  a  clap  of 
the  hands,  said  ^^  0  yes !  0  there !  0  yes !  0  there ! " 
Bye  and  bye,  he  set  up  a  dance  with  such  wild  glee, 
that  it  was  as  much  as  I  could  do  to  keep  him  on  deck. 
^^Well,  what  think  you,  Friday?"  said  I;  '^ shall  we 
find  those  whom  we  left  still  here? — Shall  we  see  poor 
old  Jaf  ?  "  He  stood  quite  mute  for  a  while,  but  when 
I  spoke  of  old  Jaf  (whose  son  Friday  was),  the  tears 
ran  down  his  face,  and  the  poor  soul  was  as  sad  as 
could  be.     ^'No,  no,"  said  he,  '^no  more,  no,  no  more." 

As  we  caught  sight  of  some  men  at  the  top  of  the 
hill,  I  gave  word  to  fire  three  guns,  to  show  that  we 
were  friends,  and  soon  we  saw  smoke  rise  from  the 
side  of  the  creek.  I  then  went  on  shore  in  a  boat, 
with  the  priest  and  Friday,  and  hung  out  a  white  flag 
of  peace.  The  first  man  I  cast  my  eyes  on  at  the 
creek,  was  my  old  fi-iend  Carl,  who,  when  I  was  last 
on  the  isle,  had  been  brought  here  in  bonds. 


72  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

I  gave  strict  charge  to  the  men  in  the  boat  not  to  go 
on  shore,  but  Friday  could  not  be  kept  back,  for  with 
his  quick  eye  he  had  caught  sight  of  old  Jaf  It 
brought  the  tears  to  our  eyes  to  see  his  joy  when  he 
met  the  old  man.  He  gave  him  a  kiss,  took  him  up 
in  his  arms,  set  him  down  in  the  shade,  then  stood  a 
short  way  off  to  look  at  him,  as  one  would  look  at  a 
work  of  art,  then  felt  him  with  his  hand,  and  all  this 
time  he  was  in  full  talk,  and  told  him,  one  by  one,  all 
the  strange  tales  of  what  he  had  seen  since  they  had 
last  met. 

As  to  my  friend  Carl,  he  came  up  to  me,  and  with 
much  warmth  shook  my  hands,  and  then  took  me  to 
my  old  house,  which  he  now  gave  up  to  me.  I  could 
no  more  have  found  the  place,  than  if  I  had  not  been 
there  at  all.  The  rows  of  trees  stood  so  thick  and 
close,  that  the  house  could  not  be  got  at,  save  by  such 
blind  ways  as  none  but  those  who  made  them  could 
find  out.  '^  Why  have  you  built  all  these  forts  ? "  said 
I.  Carl  told  me  that  he  felt  sure  I  should  say  there 
was  much  need  of  them,  when  I  heard  how  they  had 
spent  their  time  since  they  had  come  to  the  isle. 

He  brought  twelve  men  to  the  spot  where  I  stood, 
and  said,  ''  Sir,  all  these  men  owe  their  lives  to  you.'^ 
Then,  one  by  one,  they  came  up  to  me,  not  as  if  they 
had  been  the  mere  crew  of  a  ship,  but  like  men  of 
rank  who  had  come  to  kiss  the  hand  of  then-  king. 

The  first  thmg  was  to  hear  all  that  had  been  done  in 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  73 

the  isle  since  I  had  left  it.  But  I  must  first  state  that, 
when  we  were  on  the  point  to  set  sail  fi^om  the  isle,  a 
feud  sprang  up  on  board  our  ship,  wliich  we  could  not 
put  down,  till  we  had  laid  two  of  the  men  in  chains. 
The  next  day,  these  two  men  stole  each  of  them  a  gun 
and  some  small  arms,  and  took  the  ship's  boat,  and  ran 
off  with  it  to  join  the  three  bad  men  on  shore. 

As  soon  as  I  found  tliis  out,  I  sent  the  long-boat  on 
shore,  with  twelve  men  and  the  mate,  and  off  they 
went  to  seek  the  two  who  had  left  the  ship.  But  their 
search  was  in  vain,  nor  could  they  find  one  of  the  rest, 
for  they  had  all  fled  to  the  woods  when  they  saw  the 
boat.  We  had  now  lost  five  of  the  crew,  but  the  three 
first  were  so  much  worse  than  the  last  two,  that  in  a 
few  days  they  sent  them  out  of  doors,  and  would  have 
no  more  to  do  with  them,  nor  would  they  for  a  long 
while  give  them  food  to  eat. 

So  the  two  poor  men  had  to  live  as  well  as  they 
could  by  hard  work,  and  they  set  up  their  tents  on  the 
north  shore  of  the  isle,  to  be  out  of  the  way  of  the  wild 
men,  who  were  wont  to  land  on  the  east  side.  Here 
they  built  them  two  huts,  one  to  lodge  in,  and  one  to 
lay  up  their  stores  in ;  and  the  men  from  Spain  gave 
them  some  com  for  seed,  as  well  as  some  peas  which  I 
had  left  them.  They  soon  learned  to  dig,  and  plant, 
and  hedge  in  their  land,  in  the  mode  which  I  had  set 
for  them,  and  in  short,  to  lead  good  lives,  so  that  I 
shall  now  call  them  the  "  two  good  men." 


74  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

But  when  the  three  bad  men  saw  tliis,  they  were  full 
of  spite,  and  came  one  day  to  tease  and  vex  them. 
They  told  them  that  the  isle  was  their  own,  and  that  no 
one  else  had  a  right  to  build  on  it,  if  they  did  not  pay 
rent.  The  two  good  men  thought  at  first  that  they 
were  in  jest,  and  told  them  to  come  and  sit  down,  and 
see  what  fine  homes  they  had  l3uilt,  and  say  what  rent 
they  would  ask. 

But  one  of  the  three  said  they  should  soon  see  that 
they  were  not  in  jest,  and  took  a  torch  in  his  hand, 
and  put  it  to  the  roof  of  the  hut,  and  would  have  set 
it  on  fire,  had  not  one  of  the  two  good  men  trod  the 
fire  out  with  his  feet.  The  bad  man  was  in  such  a  rage 
at  this,  that  he  ran  at  him  with  a  pole  he  had  in  his 
hand,  and  this  brought  on  a  fight,  the  end  of  which 
was  that  the  three  men  had  to  stand  off.  But  in  a  short 
time  they  came  back,  and  trod  down  the  com,  and 
shot  the  goats  and  young  kids,  which  the  poor  men 
had  got  to  bring  up  tame  for  their  store. 

One  day  when  the  two  men  were  out,  they  came  to 
their  home,  and  said,  ^'Ha!  there's  the  nest,  but  the 
birds  are  flown."  They  then  set  to  work  to  pull  down 
both  the  huts,  and  left  not  a  stick,  nor  scarce  a  sign  on 
the  ground  to  show  where  the  tents  had  stood.  They 
tore  up,  too,  all  the  goods  and  stock  that  they  could 
find,  and  when  they  had  done  this,  they  told  it  all  to 
the  men  of  Spain,  and  said,  ^^You,  sirs,  shall  have 
the  same  sauce,  if  you  do  not  mend  your  ways." 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE  75 

They  then  fell  to  blows  and  hard  words,  but  Carl  had 
them  bound  in  cords,  and  took  their  arms  from  them. 
The  men  of  Spain  then  said  they  would  do  them  no 
harm,  and  if  they  would  live  at  peace  they  would  help 
them,  and  that  they  should  live  with  them  as  they  had 
done  till  that  time,  but  they  could  not  give  them  back 
their  arms  for  three  or  four  months^ 

One  night  Carl— whom  I  shall  call  ^Hhe  chief,"  as 
he  took  the  lead  of  all  the  rest — felt  a  great  weight  on 
his  mind,  and  could  get  no  sleep,  though  he  was  quite 
well  in  health.  He  lay  still  for  some  time,  but  as  he, 
did  not  feel  at  ease,  he  got  up,  and  took  a  look  out 
But  as  it  was  too  dark  to  see  far,  and  he  heard  no  noise, 
he  went  back  to  his  bed.  Still  it  was  all  one,  he  could 
not  sleep ;  and  though  he  knew  not  why,  his  thoughts 
would  give  him  no  rest. 

He  then  woke  up  one  of  his  friends,  and  told  him 
how  it  had  been  with  liim.  ^^  Say  you  so  ? "  said  he 
"  What  if  there  should  be  some  bad  plot  at  work  near 
us ! "  They  then  set  off  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  where  I 
was  wont  to  go,  and  from  thence  they  saw  the  light 
of  a  fire,  quite  a  short  way  from  them,  and  heard  the 
sounds  of  men,  not  of  one  or  two^  but  of  a  great  crowds 
We  need  not  doubt  that  the  chief  and  the  man  with 
him  now  ran  back  at  once,  to  tell  all  the  rest  what  they 
had  seen ;  and  when  they  heard  the  news,  they  could 
not  be  kept  close  where  they  were,  but  must  all  run 
out  to  see  how  things  stood. 


76  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

At  last  they  thought  that  the  best  tiling  to  do  would 
be,  while  it  was  dark,  to  send  old  Jaf  out  as  a  spy,  to 
learn  who  they  were,  and  what  they  meant  to  do. 
When  the  old  man  had  been  gone  an  hour  or  two,  he 
brought  word  back  that  he  had  been  in  the  midst  of 
the  foes,  though  they  had  not  seen  him,  and  that  they 
were  in  two  sets  or  tribes  who  were  at  war,  and  had 
come  there  to  fight.  And  so  it  was,  for  in  a  short  time 
they  heard  the  noise  of  the  fight,  which  went  on  for 
two  hours,  and  at  the  end,  with  three  loud  shouts  or 
screams,  they  left  the  isle  in  their  boats.  Thus  my 
friends  were  set  free  from  all  then-  fears,  and  saw  no 
more  of  their  wild  foes  for  some  time. 

One  day  a  whim  took  the  three  bad  men  that  they 
would  go  to  the  main  land,  from  whence  the  wild  men 
came,  and  try  if  they  could  not  seize  some  of  them,  and 
bring  them  home  as  slaves,  so  as  to  make  them  do  the 
hard  part  of  their  work  for  them.  The  chief  gave  them 
all  the  arms  and  stores  that  they  could  want,  and  a 
large  boat  to  go  in,  but  when  they  bade  them  ^'  God 
speed,"  no  one  thought  that  they  would  find  their  way 
back  to  the  isle.  But  lo !  in  three  weeks  and  a  day, 
they  did  in  truth  come  back.  One  of  the  two  good 
men  was  the  first  to  catch  sight  of  them,  and  tell  the 
news  to  Ms  friends. 

The  men  said  that  they  had  found  the  land  in  two 
days,  and  that  the  wild  men  gave  them  roots  and  fish 
to  eat,  and  were  so  kind  as  to  brine:  down  eidit  slaves 


:^«. 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  77 

to  take  back  with  them,  three  of  whom  were  men  and 
five  were  girls.  So  they  gave  their  good  hosts  an  axe, 
an  old  key,  and  a  knife,  and  brought  off  the  slaves  in 
their  boat  to  the  isle.  As  the  chief  and  his  friends  did 
not  care  to  wed  the  young  girls,  the  five  men  who  had 
been  the  crew  of  Paul's  ship  drew  lots  for  choice,  so 
that  each  had  a  wife,  and  the  three  men  slaves  were 
set  to  work  for  the  two  good  men,  though  there  was 
not  much  for  them  to  do. 

But  one  of  them  ran  off  to  the  woods,  and  they  could 
not  hear  of  him  more.  They  had  good  cause  to  think 
that  he  found  his  way  home,  as  in  three  or  four  weeks 
some  wild  men  came  to  the  isle,  and  when  they  had 
had  their  feast  and  dance,  they  went  off  in  two  days' 
time.  So  my  friends  might  well  fear  that  if  this  slave 
got  safe  home,  he  would  be  sure  to  tell  the  wild  men 
that  they  were  in  the  isle,  and  in  what  part  of  it  they 
might  be  found.  And  so  it  came  to  pass,  for  in  less 
than  two  months,  six  boats  of  wild  men,  with  eight  or 
ten  men  in  each  boat,  came  to  the  north  side  of  the 
isle,  where  they  had  not  been  known  to  come  up  to 
that  time. 

The  foe  had  brought  their  boats  to  land,  not  more 
than  a  mile  from  the  tent  of  the  two  good  men,  and  it 
was  there  that  the  slave  who  had  run  off  had  been  kept. 
These  men  had  the  good  luck  to  see  the  boats  when 
they  were  a  long  way  oflf,  so  that  it  took  them  quite 
an  hour  from  that  time  to  reach  the  shore. 


78  ROBINSON    CRUSOE 

My  friends  now  had  to  think  how  that  hour  was  to 
be  spent.  The  fii'st  thing  they  did  was  to  bind  the  two 
slaves  that  were  left,  and  to  take  then*  wives,  and  as 
much  of  their  stores  as  they  could,  to  some  dark  place 
in  the  woods.  They  then  sent  a  tlmd  slave  to  the  chief 
and  his  men,  to  tell  them  the  news,  and  to  ask  for  help. 

They  had  not  gone  far  in  the  woods,  when  they  saw, 
to  their  great  grief  and  rage,  that  their  huts  were  in 
flames,  and  that  the  wild  men  ran  to  and  fro,  like  beasts 
in  search  of  prey.  But  still  our  men  went  on,  and  did 
not  halt,  till  they  came  to  a  thick  part  of  the  wood, 
where  the  large  trunk  of  an  old  tree  stood,  and  in  this 
tree  they  both  took  their  post.  But  they  had  not  been 
there  long,  when  two  of  the  wild  men  ran  that  way, 
and  they  saAV  three  more,  and  then  five  more,  who  all 
ran  the  same  way,  as  if  they  knew  where  they  were. 

Our  two  poor  men  made  up  their  minds  to  let  the 
first  two  pass,  and  then  take  the  three  and  the  five  in 
line,  as  they  came  up,  but  to  fire  at  one  at  a  time,  as 
the  first  shot  might  chance  to  hit  all  three. 

So  the  man  who  was  to  fire  put  three  or  four  balls 
in  his  gun,  and  from  a  hole  in  the  tree,  took  a  sure  aim, 
and  stood  still  till  the  three  wild  men  came  so  near  that 
he  could  not  miss  them.  They  soon  saw  that  one  of 
these  three  was  the  slave  that  had  fled  from  them,  as 
they  both  knew  him  well,  and  they  made  up  their 
mmds  that  they  would  Idll  him,  though  they  should 
both  fire. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  79 

At  the  first  shot  two  of  the  wild  men  fell  dead,  and 
the  third  had  a  graze  on  his  arm,  and  though  not  much 
hurt,  sat  down  on  the  ground  with  loud  screams  and 
fells.  When  the  five  men  who  came  next,  heard  the 
sound  of  the  gun  and  the  slave's  cries,  they  stood  still 
at  first,  as  if  they  were  struck  dumb  with  fright.  So 
our  two  men  both  shot  off"  their  guns  in  the  midst  of 
them,  and  then  ran  up  and  bound  them  safe  with  cords. 

They  then  went  to  the  thick  part  of  the  wood  where 
they  had  put  their  wives  and  slaves,  to  see  if  all  were 
safe  there,  and  to  their  joy  they  found  that  though  the 
wild  men  had  been  quite  near  them,  they  had  not  found 
them  out.  While  they  were  here,  the  chief  and  his 
men  came  up,  and  told  them  that  the  rest  had  gone  to 
take  care  of  my  old  house  and  grove,  in  case  the  troop 
of  wild  men  should  spread  so  far  that  way. 

They  then  went  back  to  the  burnt  huts,  and  when 
they  came  in  sight  of  the  shore,  they  found  that  their 
foes  had  all  gone  out  to  sea.  So  they  set  to  work  to 
build  up  then  huts,  and  as  all  the  men  in  the  isle  lent 
them  their  aid,  they  were  soon  in  a  way  to  thrive  once 
more.  For  five  or  six  months  they  saw  no  more  of 
the  wild  men.  But  one  day  a  large  fleet  of  more  than 
a  score  of  boats  came  in  sight,  full  of  men  who  had 
bows,  darts,  clubs,  swords,  and  such  like  arms  of  war, 
and  our  friends  were  all  in  great  fear. 

As  they  came  at  dusk,  and  at  the  East  side  of  the 
isle,  our  men  had  the  whole  night  to  think  of  what  they 


80  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

should  do.  And  as  they  knew  that  the  most  safe  way 
was  to  hide  and  he  in  wait,  they  first  of  all  took  down 
the  huts  which  were  built  for  the  two  good  men,  and 
drove  their  goats  to  the  cave,  for  they  thought  the  wild 
men  would  go  straight  there  as  soon  as  it  was  day,  and 
play  the  old  game. 

The  next  day  they  took  up  their  post  with  all  their 
force  at  the  wood,  near  the  home  of  the  two  men,  to 
wait  for  the  foe.  They  gave  no  guns  to  the  slaves,  but 
each  of  them  had  a  long  staff  with  a  spike  at  the  end 
of  it,  and  by  his  side  an  axe.  There  were  two  of  the 
wives  who  could  not  be  kept  back,  but  would  go  out 
and  fight  with  bows  and  darts. 

The  wild  men  came  on  with  a  bold  and  fierce  mien, 
not  in  a  fine,  but  all  in  crowds  here  and  there,  to  the 
point  were  our  men  lay  in  wait  for  them.  When  they 
were  so  near  as  to  be  in  range  of  the  guns,  our  men 
shot  at  them  right  and  left,  with  five  or  six  balls  in  each 
charge.  As  the  foe  came  up  in  close  crowds,  they  fell 
dead  on  all  sides,  and  most  of  those  that  they  did  not 
kill  were  much  hurt,  so  that  great  fear  and  dread  came 
on  them  all. 

Our  men  then  fell  on  them  from  three  points  with 
the  butt  end  of  their  guns,  swords,  and  staves,  and  did 
their  work  so  well  that  the  wild  men  set  up  a  loud 
shriek,  and  flew  for  their  fives  to  the  woods  and  hills^ 
with  aU  the  speed  that  fear  and  swift  feet  could  help 
them  to  do.     As  our  men  did  not  care  to  chase  them, 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  8t 

ihey  got  to  the  shore   where  they  had  come  to  land 
and  where  the  boats  lay. 

But  theu^  rout  was  not  yet  at  an  end,  for  it  blew  a 
great  stoiTU  that  day  from  the  sea,  so  that  they  could 
not  put  off.  And  as  the  storm  went  on  all  that  night, 
when  the  tide  came  up,  the  surge  of  the  sea  drove  most 
of  their  boats  so  high  on  the  shore,  that  they  could  not 
be  got  off  save  with  great  toil,  and  the  force  of  the 
waves  on  the  beach  broke  some  of  them  to  bits. 

At  break  of  day,  our  men  went  forth  to  find  them, 
and  when  they  saw  the  state  of  things,  they  got  some 
dry  wood  from  a  dead  tree,  and  set  their  boats  on  fire. 
When  the  foe  saw  this,  they  ran  all  through  the  isle 
with  loud  cries,  as  if  they  were  mad,  so  that  our  men 
did  not  know  at  first  what  to  do  with  them,  for  they 
trod  all  the  corn  down  with  their  feet,  and  tore  up  the 
vines  just  as  the  grapes  were  ripe,  and  did  a  great 
deal  of  harm. 

At  last  they  brought  old  Jaf  to  them,  to  tell  them 
how  kind  they  would  be  to  them,  that  they  would  save 
their  lives,  and  give  them  part  of  the  isle  to  live  in,  if 
they  would  keep  in  their  own  bounds,  and  that  they 
should  have  corn  to  plant,  and  should  make  it  grow 
for  their  bread.  They  were  but  too  glad  to  have  such 
good  terms  of  peace,  and  they  soon  learnt  to  make  aR 
kinds  of  work  with  canes,  wood,  and  sticks,  such  aa 
chairs,  stools,  and  beds,  and  this  they  did  with  great 
skill  when  they  were  once  taught. 


82  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

From  tliis  time  till  I  came  back  to  the  isle  my  friends 
saw  no  more  wild  men.  I  now  told  the  cliief  that  I 
had  not  come  to  take  off  liis  men,  but  to  bring  more, 
and  to  give  them  all  such  thmgs  as  they  would  want 
to  guard  their  homes  from  foes,  and  cheer  up  their 
hearts. 

The  next  day  I  made  a  grand  feast  for  them  all,  and 
the  ship's  cook  and  mate  came  on  shore  to  dress  it. 
We  brought  out  our  rounds  of  salt  beef  and  pork,  a 
bowl  of  punch,  some  beer,  and  French  wines;  and 
Carl  gave  the  cooks  five  whole  kids  to  roast,  tliree 
of  which  were  sent  to  the  crew  on  board  ship,  that 
they,  on  their  part,  might  feast  on  fresh  meat  from 
shore. 

I  gave  each  of  the  men  a  shirt,  a  coat,  a  hat,  and  a 
pair  of  shoes,  and  I  need  not  say  how  glad  they  were 
to  meet  with  gifts  so  new  to  them.  Then  I  brought 
out  the  tools,  of  which  each  man  had  a  spade,  a  rake, 
an  axe,  a  crow,  a  saw,  a  knife,  and  such  like  things,  as 
w^ell  as  arms,  and  all  that  they  could  want  for  the 
use  of  them. 

As  I  saw  there  was  a  kind  will  on  all  sides,  I  now 
took  on  shore  the  youth  and  the  maid  whom  we  had 
brought  from  the  ship  that  we  met  on  her  way  to 
France.  The  girl  had  been  well  brought  up,  and  all 
the  crew  had  a  good  word  for  her.  As  they  both  had 
a  wish  to  be  left  on  the  isle,  I  gave  them  each  a  plot 
of  ground,  on  which  they  had  tents  and  barns  built. 


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ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  83 

I  had  brought  out  with  me  five  men  to  live  here,  one 
of  whom  could  turn  his  hand  to  all  sorts  of  things,  so 
I  gave  him  the  name  of  "  Jack  of  all  Trades." 

One  day  the  French  priest  came  to  ask  if  I  would 
leave  my  man  Friday  here,  for  through  him,  he  said,  he 
could  talk  to  the  black  men  in  their  own  tongue,  and 
teach  them  the  tilings  of  God.  "  Need  I  add,"  said  he, 
"  that  it  was  for  this  cause  that  I  came  here  ?  "  I  felt 
that  I  could  not  part  with  my  man  Friday  for  the  whole 
world,  so  I  told  the  priest  that  if  I  could  have  made 
up  my  mind  to  leave  him  here,  I  was  quite  sure  that 
Friday  would  not  part  from  me.     • 

When  I  had  seen  that  all  things  were  in  a  good  state 
on  the  isle,  I  set  to  work  to  put  my  ship  to  rights,  to 
go  home  once  more.  One  day,  as  I  was  on  my  way 
to  it,  the  youth  whom  I  had  brought  from  the  ship  that 
was  burnt,  came  up  to  me,  and  said,  "  Sir,  you  have 
brought  a  priest  with  you,  and  while  you  are  here,  we 
want  him  to  wed  two  of  us." 

I  made  a  guess  that  one  of  these  must  be  the  maid 
that  I  had  brought  to  the  isle,  and  that  it  was  the  wish 
of  the  young  man  to  make  her  his  wife.  I  spoke  to 
him  with  some  warmth  in  my  tone,  and  bade  him  turn 
it  well  in  his  mind  first,  as  the  girl  was  not  in  the  same 
rank  of  life  as  he  had  been  brought  up  in.  But  he 
said,  with  a  smile,  that  I  had  made  a  wrong  guess, 
for  it  was  "  Jack  of  all  Trades "  that  he  had  come  to 
plead  for. 


84  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

It  gave  me  great  joy  to  hear  this,  as  the  maid  was 
as  good  a  girl  as  could  be,  and  I  thought  well  of  Jack ; 
so  on  that  day  I  gave  her  to  him.  They  were  to  have 
a  large  piece  of  ground  to  grow  their  crops  on,  with  a 
house  to  live  in,  and  sheds  for  their  goats. 

The  isle  was  now  set  out  in  this  way :  all  the  west 
end  was  left  waste,'  so  that  if  the  wild  men  should  land 
on  it,  they  might  come  and  go,  and  hurt  no  one.  My 
old  house  I  gave  to  the  chief,  with  all  its  woods,  which 
now  spread  out  as  far  as  the  creek,  and  the  south  end 
was  for  the  white  men  and  their  wives. 

It  struck  me  that-  there  was  one  gift  which  I  had 
not  thought  of,  and  that  was  the  book  of  God's  Word, 
which  I  knew  would  give  to  those  who  could  feel  the 
words  in  it,  fresh  strength  for  their  work,  and  grace  to 
bear  the  ills  of  hfe. 

Now  that  I  had  been  in  the  isle  quite  a  month,  I 
once  more  set  sail  on  the  fiftli  day  of  May ;  and  all  my 
friends  told  me  that  they  should  stay  there  till  I  came 
to  fetch  them. 

When  we  had  been  out  three  days,  though  the  sea 
was  smooth  and  calm,  we  saw  that  it  -was  quite  black 
on  the  land  side ;  and  as  we  knew  not  what  to  make 
of  it,  I  sent  the  chief  mate  up  the  main  mast  to  find 
out  witl^  his  glass  what  it  could  be.  He  said  it  was  a 
fleet  of  scores  and  scores  of  small  boats,  full  of  wild 
men  who  came  fast  at  us  with  fierce  looks. 

As  soon  as  we  got  near  them,  I  gave  word  to  fi;rl 


ROBINSON    CKUSOE.  85 

all  sails  and  stop  the  ship,  and  as  there  was  nought  to 
fear  from  them  but  fire,  to  get  the  boats  out  and  man 
them  both  well,  and  so  wait  for  them  to  come  up. 

In  this  way  we  lay  by  for  them,  and  in  a  short  time 
they  came  up  with  us ;  but  as  I  thought  they  would 
try  to  row  round  and  so  close  us  in,  1  told  the  men  in 
the  boats  not  to  let  them  come  too  near.  This,  though 
we  did  not  mean  it,  brought  us  to  a  fight  with  them, 
and  they  shot  a  cloud  of  darts  at  our  boats.  We  did 
not  fire  at  them,  yet  m  half  an  hour  they  went  back 
out  to  sea,  and  then  came  straight  to  us,  till  we  were 
so  near  that  they  could  hear  us  speak. 

I  bade  my  men  keep  close,  so  as  to  be  safe  from 
their  darts  if  they  should  shoot,  and  get  out  the  guns. 
I  then  sent  Friday  on  deck,  to  call  out  to  them  in  their 
own  tongue,  and  ask  what  they  meant.  It  may  be 
that  they  did  not  know  what  he  said,  but  as  soon  as 
he  spoke  to  them  I  heard  him  cry  out  that  they  would 
shoot.  This  was  too  true,  for  they  let  fly  a  thick  cloud 
of  darts,  and  to  my  great  grief  poor  Friday  fell  dead, 
for  there  was  no  one  else  in  their  sight.  He  was  shot 
with  three  darts,  and  three  more  fell  quite  near  him, 
so  good  was  their  aim. 

I  was  so  mad  with  rage  at  the  loss  of  my  dear  Fri- 
day, that  I  bade  the  men  load  five  guns  with  small 
shot,  and  four  with  large,  and  we  gave  them  such  a 
fierce  fire  that  in  all  their  hves  they  could  not  have 
seen  one  like  it. 


86  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

Then  ^  rare  scene  met  our  eyes:  dread  and  fear  came 
on  them  all,  for  then  boats,  which  were  small,  were 
split  and  sunk — three  or  four  by  one  shot.  The  men 
who  were  not  dead  had  to  swim,  and  those  who 
had  wounds  were  left  to  sink,  for  all  the  rest  got  off 
as  fast  as  they  could.  Our  boat  took  up  one  poor 
man  who  had  to  swim  for  his  life,  when  the  rest  had 
fled  for  the  space  of  half  an  hour.  In  tln-ee  hours' 
time,  we  could  not  see  more  than  three  or  four  of  their 
boats,  and  as  a  breeze  sprang  up  we  set  sail. 

At  first  the  man  whom  we  took  on  board  would  not 
eat  or  speak,  and  we  all  had  fears  lest  he  should  pine 
to  death.  But  when  we  had  taught  him  to  say  a  few 
words,  he  told  us  that  his  friends — the  wild  men — had 
come  out  with  their  king  to  have  a  great  fight,  and  that 
all  they  meant  was  to  make  us  look  at  the  grand  sight. 
So  it  was  for  this  that  poor  Friday  fell !  He  who  had 
been  as  good  and  true  to  me  as  man  could  be !  And 
now  in  deep  grief  I  must  take  my  leave  of  him. 

We  went  on  with  a  fair  wind  to  All  Saints'  Bay,  and 
here  I  found  a  sloop  tl^^t  I  had  brought  with  me  fi'om 
home,  that  I  might  send  men  and  stores  for  the  use  of 
my  friends  in  the  isle.  I  taught  the  mate  how  to  find 
the  place,  and  when  he  came  back,  I  found  that  he 
had  done  so  with  ease. 

One  of  our  crew  had  a  great  wish  to  go  with  the 
sloop,  and  five  on  the  isle,  if  the  chief  would  give  him 
land  to  plant.    So  I  told  him  he  should  go  by  all 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  87' 

means,  and  gave  him  the  wild  man  for  his  slave.  I 
found,  too,  that  a  man  who  had  come  with  his  wife 
and  child  and  three  slaves,  to  hide  from  the  king  of 
Spain,  would  like  to  go,  if  he  could  have  some  land 
there,  though  he  had  but  a  small  stock  to  take  with 
him ;  so  I  put  them  all  on  board  the  sloop,  and  saw 
them  safe  out  of  the  bay,  on  their  way  to  the  isle. 
With  them  I  sent  three  mUch  cows,  five  calves,  a  horse, 
and  a  colt,  all  of  which,  as  I  heard,  went  safe  and 
sound. 

I  have  now  no  more  to  say  of  my  isle,  as  I  had  left 
it  for  the  last  time,  but  my  life  in  lands  no  less  far  from 
home  was  not  yet  at  an  end.  From  the  Bay  of  All 
Saints  we  went  straight  to  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope. 
Here  I  made  up  my  mind  to  part  from  the  ship  in 
which  I  had  come  from  the  Isle,  and  with  two  of  the 
crew  to  stay  on  land,  and  leave  the  rest  to  go  on  their 
way.  I  soon  made  friends  with  some  men  from  France, 
as  well  as  from  my  own  land,  and  two  Jews,  who  had 
come  out  to  the  Cape  to  trade. 

.  As  I  found  that  some  goods  which  I  had  brought 
with  me  from  home  were  worth  a  great  deal,  I  made 
a  large  sum  by  the  sale  of  them.  When  we  had 
been  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  for  nine  months,  we 
thought  that  the  best  thing  we  could  do  would  be  to 
hire  a  ship,  and  sail  to  the  Spice  Isles,  to  buy  cloves , 
so  we  got  a  ship,  and  men  to  work  her,  and  set  out. 
When  we  had  bought  and  sold  our  goods  in  the  course 


88  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

of  trade,  we  came  back,  and  then  set  out  once  more ; 
so  that,  m  short,  as  we  went  from  port  to  port,  to  and 
fro,  I  spent,  from  fii'st  to  last,  six  years  in  this  part 
of  the  world. 

At  length  we  thought  we  would  go  and  seek  new 
scenes  where  we  could  get  fresh  gains.  And  a  strange 
set  of  men  we  at  last  fell  in  with,  as  you  who  read 
tliis  tale  will  say  when  you  look  at  the  print  in  front 
of  this  page. 

When  we  had  put  on  shore,  we  made  friends  with  a 
man  who  got  us  a  large  house,  built  with  canes,  and 
a  small  kind  of  hut  of  the  same  near  it.  It  had  a  high 
fence  of  canes  round  it  to  keep  out  thieves,  of  whom, 
it  seems,  there  are  not  a  few  in  that  land.  The  name 
of  the  town  was  Cliing,  and  we  found  that  the  fair  or 
mart  which  was  kept  there  would  not  be  held  for  three 
or  four  months.  So  we  sent  our  ship  back  to  the  Cape, 
as  we  meant  to  stay  in  this  part  of  the  world  for  some 
time,  and  go  from  place  to  place  to  see  what  sort  of  a 
land  it  was,  and  then  come  back  to  the  fair  at  Ching. 

We  first  went  to  a  town  which  it  was  well  worth 
our  while  to  see,  and  which  must  have  been,  as  near 
as  I  can  guess,  quite  in  the  heart  of  this  land.  It  was 
built  with  straight  streets  which  ran  in  cross  Hues. 

But  I  must  own,  when  I  came  home  to  the  place  of 
my  birth,  I  was  much  struck  to  hear  my  friends  say 
such  fine  things  of  the  wealth  and  trade  of  these  parts 
of  the  world,  for  I  saw  and  knew  that  the  men  were 


ROBINSON    CHUSOE   TRAVELING  IN    CHINA.-  Pa^e  88. 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  89 

a  mere  herd  or  crowd  of  mean  slaves.  What  is  their 
trade  to  ours,  or  to  that  of  France  and  Spain  ?  What 
are  their  ports,  with  a  few  junks  and  barks,  to  our 
grand  fleets?  One  of  our  large  ships  of  war  would 
sink  all  then  ships,  one  line  of  French  troops  would 
beat  all  then  horse,  and  the  same  may  be  said  of  their 
ports,  which  would  not  stand  for  one  month  such  a 
siege  as  we  could  bring  to  bear  on  them. 

In  three  weeks  more  we  came  to  their  chief  town. 
When  we  had  laid  in  a  large  stock  of  tea,  shawls,  fans, 
raw  silks,  and  such  like  goods,  we  set  out  for  the  north. 
As  we  knew  we  should  run  all  kinds  of  risks  on  our 
way,  we  took  with  us  a  strong  force  to  act  as  a  guard, 
and  to  keep  us  from  the  wild  hordes  who  rove  from 
place  to  place  all  through  the  land.  Some  of  our  men 
were  Scots,  who  had  come  out  to  trade  here,  and  had 
great  wealth,  and  I  was  glad  to  join  them,  as  it  was 
by  no  means  the  first  time  that  they  had  been  here. 

We  took  five  guides  with  us,  and  we  all  put  our  coin 
in  one  purse,  to  buy  food  on  the  way,  and  to  pay  the 
men  who  took  charge  of  us.  One  of  us  we  chose  out 
for  our  chief,  to  take  the  lead  in  case  we  should  have 
to  fight  for  our  fives ;  and  when  the  time  came,  we  had 
no  small  need  of  liim.  On  the  sides  of  afi  the  roads, 
we  saw  men  who  made  pots,  cups,  pans,  and  such  hke 
ware,  out  of  a  kind  of  earth,  which  is,  in  fact,  the  chief 
trade  hi  this  part  of  the  world. 

One  thing,  the  guide  said  he  would  show  me,  that 


90  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

was  not  to  be  seen  in  all  the  world  else  (and  this,  in 
good  sooth,  I  could  not  sneer  at,  as  I  had  done  at  most 
of  the  things  I  had  seen  here),  and  this  was  a  house  that 
was  built  of  a  kind  of  ware,  such  as  most  plates  and 
cups  are  made  of  ''  How  big  is  it  ?  "  said  I ;  '^  can  we 
take  it  on  the  back  of  a  horse  ?  "  ^^  On  a  horse ! "  said 
the  guide,  ^'  why,  two  score  of  men  live  m  it."  He  then 
took  us  to  it,  and  I  found  that  it  was  in  .truth  a  large 
house,  built  with  lath  and  the  best  ware  that  can  be 
made  out  of  earth.  The  sun  shone  hot  on  the  walls, 
which  were  quite  white,  hard,  and  smooth  as  glass,  with 
forms  on  them  in  blue  paint.  On  the  walls  of  the 
rooms  were  small  square  tiles  of  the  best  ware,  with 
red,  blue,  and  green  paint  of  all  shades  and  hues,  in 
rare  forms,  done  in  good  taste ;  and  as  they  use  the 
same  kind  of  earth  to  jom  the  tiles  with,  you  could 
not  see  where  the  tiles  met.  The  floors  of  the  rooms 
were  made  of  the  same  ware,  and  as  strong  as  those 
we  have  at  home;  and  the  same  may  be  said  of  the 
roofs,  but  they  were  of  a  dark  shade.  If  we  had  had 
more  time  to  spare,  I  should  have  been  glad  to  have 
seen  more  of  this  house,  for  there  were  the  ponds 
for  the  fish,  the  walks,  the  yards,  and  courts,  which 
were  all  made  in  the  same  way.  This  odd  sight  kept 
me  from  my  friends  for  two  hours,  and  when  I  had 
come  up  to  them,  I  had  to  pay  a  fine  to  our  chief,  as 
they  had  to  wait  so  long. 

In  two  days  more  we  came  to  the  Great  Wall,  which 


ROBINSON    CRUSOE.  91 

was  made  as  a  fort  to  keep  the  whole  land  safe, — and 

a  great  work  it  is.    It  goes  in  a  long  track  for  miles 

and  miles,  where  the  rocks  are  so  high  and  steep  that 

no  foe  could  climb  them ;  or,  if  they  did,  no  wall  could  i 

stop  them.     The  Great  Wall  is  as  thick  as  it  is  high, 

and  it  turns  and  winds  in  all  sorts  of  ways. 

We  now  saw,  for  the  first  time,  some  troops  of  the 
hordes  I  spoke  of,  who  rove  from  place  to  place,  to  rob 
and  kill  all  whom  they  meet  with.  They  know  no  real 
mode  of  war,  or  skill  in  fight.  Each  has  a  poor  lean 
horse,  which  is  not  fit  to  do  good  work.  Our  chief 
gave  some  of  us  leave  to  go  out  and  hunt  as  they  call 
it,  and  what  was  it  but  to  hunt  sheep !  These  sheep 
are  wild  and  swift  of  foot,  but  they  will  not  run  far, 
and  you  are  sure  of  sport  when  you  start  in  the  chase. 
They  go  in  flocks  of  a  score,  or  two,  and  like  true 
sheep,  keep  close  when  they  fly.  In  this  sort  of  chase 
it  was  our  hap  to  meet  with  some  two  score  of  the  wild 
hordes,  but  what  sort  of  prey  they  had  come  to  hunt  I 
know  not.  As  soon  as  they  saw  us,  one  of  them  blew 
some  loud  notes  on  a  kind  of  horn,  with  a  sound  that 
was  quite  new  to  me.  We  all  thought  this  was  to  call 
their  fiiends  round  them,  and  so  it  was,  for  in  a  short 
time  a  fresh  troop  of  the  same  size  came  to  join  them ; 
und  they  were  all,  as  far  as  we  could  judge,  a  mile  off. 
One  of  the  Scots  was  with  us,  and  as  soon  as  he  heard 
the  horn,  he  told  us  that  we  must  lose  no  time,  but 


92  ROBINSON    CRUSOE. 

draw  up  in  line,  and  charge  them  at  once.  We  told 
him  we  would,  if  he  would  take  the  lead. 

They  stood  still,  and  cast  a  wild  gaze  at  us,  like  a 
mere  crowd,  drawn  up  in  no  Ime ;  but  as  soon  as  they 
saw  us  come  at  them,  they  let  fly  tlieh  darts,  which 
did  not  hit  us,  for  though  their  aim  was  true,  they  fell 
short  of  us.  We  now  came  to  a  halt  to  fire  at  them, 
and  then  went  at  full  speed  to  fall  on  them  sword  in 
hand,  for  so  the  bold  Scot  that  led  us,  told  us  to  do. 

As  soon  as  we  came  up  to  them,  they  fled  right  and 
left.  The  sole  stand  made  was  by  three  of  them,  who 
had  a  kind  of  short  sword  in  theh  hands,  and  bows  on 
theh  backs,  and  who  did  all  they  could  to  call  all  the 
rest  back  to  them.  The  brave  Scot  rode  close  up  to 
them,  and  with  his  gun  thi'cw  one  off  his  horse,  shot  the 
next,  and  the  third  ran  off,  and  this  was  the  end  of  our 
fight.  All  the  bad  luck  we  met  with,  was  that  the 
sheep  that  we  had  in  chase  got  off.  We  had  not  a 
man  hurt,  but  as  for  the  foe,  five  of  them  were  dead, 
and  not  a  few  had  w^ounds,  while  the  rest  fled  at  the 
mere  noise  of  our  guns. 

Thus  we  went  on  our  way  from  town  to  town,  and 
now  and  then  met  some  of  these  wild  hordes,  whom 
we  had  to  fight,  and  I  need  not  add  that  each  time  we 
had  the  best  of  the  fray.  At  last  we  made  our  way 
to  the  chief  town  of  the  North  Seas  at  the  end  of  a 
year,  five  months  and  three  days,  from  the  time  when 
we  left  Cliing.     When  I  had  been  there  six  weeks,  and 


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had  bought  some  more  goods,  I  took  ship  and  set  sail 
for  the  land  of  my  birth,  which  I  had  left,  this  time, 
for  ten  years,  nine  months  and  three  days. 

And  now  I  must  bring  this  tale  of  my  life  to  a  close, 
while  at  the  age  of  three  score  years  and  twelve,  I  feel 
that  the  day  is  at  hand,  when  I  shall  go  forth  on  that 
sea  of  peace  and  love,  which  has  no  waves  or  shores 
but  those  of  bhss  that  knows  no  end. 


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